THE NEW ELECTRIC GUN.
: ' ■. ' • » ■. , ' . 'far TEr.EGIUPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ' Auckland,; April 1: Professor. Brown, of Auckland University Collego, who has just returned . froih England, hoard nothing whatever whilo at Homo of the ojectric gun invented by Mi'. Simpson, a . Scotsman. The Professor considers it';is quito. possible, that such velocity as stated in tho cablo (30,000 ft. per 'second) could be obtained on tho. urinciplo of an inductivo coil. With -a' coil ,100 yards long and a sufficiently powerful dynamo,,' thoro was iio| reason why feet a second,, or oven'i higher velocity, might not bo obtained. . If tho gun ,wer<y worked on that principlo, any other nation might easily adopt it, and it was doubtful whotlior.it would bo of benefit to 8ritain........ , ' v
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 163, 3 April 1908, Page 4
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120THE NEW ELECTRIC GUN. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 163, 3 April 1908, Page 4
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