AN ELECTRIC GUN.
The latest sensation in small arms is an electric gun, Colonel Fosbery is stated to have created a sensation at a lecture he gave to om'cers,-small-arm inventors, and other experts at the Royal United' Service Institution, by suddenly drawing from its place of (hiding under' the table, a wonderful new gun which ho had just brought from Liege, He called it a "baby electric gun." It looked like a pretty carbine, but it had no mechanism, and could not possibly go off until connected upjto the source of electric force, That done, it could be fired with amazing rapidity-104 rounds having a few days before been fired from it in two minutes by its inventor, M. Pieper, of Liege, Colonel Fosbery fired two rounds with infinitesimal powder charges, He had prepared himself by secreting under his Yest a small circuit of wire, and, putting on a banderole, supporting what looked like a two ounce phial, but was, in fact, an electric accumulator, with sufficient stored-iip energy to discharge two thousand rounds. The opinion was expressed by various speakers that the electric gun must onco more ' revolutionise the manufacture of small arms within a brief period,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1481, 12 September 1883, Page 2
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198AN ELECTRIC GUN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1481, 12 September 1883, Page 2
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