Diabolical Ingenuity.-— One Perrot, a Frenchman, has invented three terribly destructive engines— .-the first, a three barreled airgun firing. 1,000 bullets a minute, the bullets dropping from a hopper without intermission into the gun ; the seoond is similar but mounted on wheels ; and the;third .is a steam -., . 10c0.m0tiv.e,* , " discharging Xiyo pouhd^eight of projeptjOie^periseco.ndj and capable of killibg 172,800 men in 24 hour.*, if but one man was killed to.every 100 shots discharged. .: .
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 11, Issue 828, 19 February 1867, Page 4
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72Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 11, Issue 828, 19 February 1867, Page 4
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