Mechanical Probability.

Progress, Volume III, Issue 10, 1 August 1908, Page 337

Mechanical Probability.

A Wellington electrician writes to us: "The military tkoi-M is full of expectation with regard to the new electnc gun of Mr W. S. Simpson. The seeiet of its opeiation has been very well preserved, or rather the secret details of mechanism ha\e so far been cle\erly hidden. The electrical engmeei, howevei, does not expect any very startling no%eltv He has always been aware that he can project a so'id core of iron by means of a solenoid, although he has employed tliis mechanism only within a limited range. By carrying the puncip^ further it would not be a difficult matter to produce an apparatus which would project a mi«sile to a considerable distance."