ELECTRIC GUN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13722, 11 April 1908, Page 7

ELECTRIC GUN.

„ , ■ ! TWENTY SHOTS A SECOND. J By Telegraph.—Press Association.- Copyright. Paris, April !!. I M. Poutjjaux, a chemist, of Dijon, I has invented an electric gun, which !ho claims will lire 1200 shots a j minute. i The ingenuity that, is being displayed in | the direction of destructive arms is appalling. The war of the future promises to | be fought with it much larger percentage lof slaughter than in tiro past. In Febi n;«ry last a sou of Sir Hiram Maxim, the I Anglo-American inventor, patented m rifle I that is both smokeless and noiseless. At i the time the American newspapers predict- | ed that this new weapon would revolutionj ise warfare. Then, a few days later, came j the announcement that Mr. Btsnge;t'teu. ; a wits-American engineer, ha.d offered j to sell In the; United States Government j for £-1,000,000, his automatic, noiseless, ! smokeless, and fkshtess gun. Again, early i this month, now.-, was received to the effect | that Mr. Simpson, a Scotchman, had inI vented a weapon for imparting by means iof electricity, an initial velocity of i SO.oooft per second to projectiles up to ! 20001b in weight, by means of which LouI don might bombard' Pari!'. | " __