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Electric Machine Gun (Railgun)
A device that accelerates small projectiles magnetically using a strong electric current. (Read the full article)
| "The navy expermented with one of the electric machine guns Some time in the 1920s
It was in a book in the Palm Beach High School library in the 1930s
The author had pictures of
the navy gun and his experment witha small single shot and steel balls" (Wendell C. Guyer 6/21/2006 4:53:41 PM ) |
| "between WW1 and WW2 the US navy expermentd with a magnetic machine gun that supposedly pushed bullets at a 1000 a minute.
I read the article in High school in either 39 or 40
a picture of the gun was shown in the book that was in the high school
library in Palm Beach High
in West Palm Beach FL" (Wendell Guyer 6/22/2006 7:28:47 PM ) |
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