NEW WAR TERROR
A MONSTER GUN.
A BRITISHER’S INVENTION,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.
NEW iORK, July 9. (Received July 10, at 11.5 p.m.) Dr Hutchinson, Mr s Edison’s chief engineer, gave a demonstration of a now gun which is able to hurl a five-ton projectile 200 -to 300 miles, the discharge being noiseless, smokeless, and without recoil. Smokeless powder is utilised. The gun can develop a muzzle velocity of five miles per second. Its extraordinary powers are duo to the fact that Hie powder is burned, all of it being consumed before the projectiles are discharged.
Tho miniature specimen gun used was only Sin long, but the principle for the greater gun will be the same.
Mr Hudson Maxim declared the weapon to be wonderful. Another armament expert said; “It will do more eventually to bring peace than the Peace Conference, as it will make war too terrible.” The gun is the invention of Mr John Temple, a Britisher.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18294, 11 July 1921, Page 5
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