Another Wonderful In-VENTIOS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 240, 12 September 1883, Page 2

Another Wonderful InVENTIOS.

A BABY ELECTRIC GUN.

The London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian ssys ;— Colonel Fosbery created a sensation at a lecture he gave to ah assembly of officers, small-arm inventors, and other experts recently at the Royal- United Service Institution, by suddenly drawing from its place of hiding, under . th 9 table, a wonderful new gun, which he had just broaght 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 up to the source of electric force. That done, it could be fired with amaz\ ing rapidity, 104 rounds having a few days previously been fired from it by its inventor, M. Pisper, of Liege, m two minutes. Colonel Fosberv fired two rounds with infinitessimal charges. He had prepared himself by secreting under his vest a small circuit of wire and putting on a bandereie, supporting what looked like' a twa- ounce phial, but was m fact an electric accumulator, with sufficent stored-up energy to discharge 2000 rounds, The cartridges were very innocent looking mites, and contained no detonating substances— nothing, m fact, but simply powder and a wad. The opinion was expressed that the electric gun must once more revolutionize the manufacture of small arms within a brief period!