The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-03-11
TWO MILLION BULLETS AN HOUR
CAN BE DISCHARGED fRoM
MYSTERY GUN.
IS sMOKELESS, BUT SILENT
Its PropeIling Power Is secret Oh
the Inventor. Who Asks rive
Million Dollars for 1t. VIII
Sell or Destroy 1t.

Hidden in a loft in a secluded
building in New York City there Is
\ gun that by mysterious force can
discharge two million bullets an
hour This terrible machine, which
because of it's destructiveness, is eX-
pected to prevent war, is not hred
Inv Dowder. 1t makes no noise, no
e,,ol,a no fash, no odor nor fumes.
No crank has to be turned by hand.
Connressed air it not the force used
SO that there is not even a Kissing
sound produced No chemical or eA-
Dlosiye is employed to send the
Niagara of bullets HURTING a mile
through space at the rate OF 500 a.
second. 10000 minute when the
gun is worked at ordinary speed and
, 600. 600 an hour if pushed to It's
MAXIMUM capacity The velocity is |
from 500 to 5000 feet second |
according to the will of the operator
There is no recoil, the gun never
gets heated, it cannot explode, ana
Two men can operate the deadly ma
chine. -.o
The cost of firing 100000 bull
let's. half an inch in diameter, would
he about $40. The expense OF hrlng
100000 bullets requiring powder
and shells is more than $4,000.
The GUN works automatically II
the operators were to place 1000
600 balls in the magazine and turn
on the power the men could go to
dinner and take a walk for an hour,
confident that while they were gone
the gun would continue to hurl bul-
lets so long as one was left in the
hopper.
VIII BE Mounted on Auto.
The plan of the inventor is to
mount the new gun on track SINH
lar to an automobile, to be run by
a 100-horse-poWer motor which
would give the carriage speed OF
go miles an hour. The outfit, ready
for action, would weigh about 5000
pounds.
There are to be two clutches on
the auto-one to start and stop the
rarriage, the other to operate the
gun. The same motor that runs the
carriage furnishes the power to fire
the gun, which can be worked while
the automobile is in motion as we'll
rs when it is standing still.
The gun works on a swivel, and
ian be swung around so as to sweep
IN arc of rs degrees. The muZzles
if the five barrels can be elevated
+ depressed, so that the operator
an deluge any spot he may elect
With bullets.
AS no shells, powder or other am
munition aside from the balls are
used, all that the gun truck is called
upon to transport are the gun, the
crew of two men, the bullets and the
gasoline or storage batteries which
ever may be used in furnishing pow |
er. The absence of powder and
shells increases the carrying capacity |
of the automobile so per cent, so
far as the projectiles are concerned,
because just that much more space !
is available.
Each Equal to a Regiment. |
The inventors idea, he declares, |
is not to destroy life, but to place !
the nation that uses his gun in such
a position that no other power
would be sufficiently rash as to make
war against the one armed by such
a formidable weapon. He says that
ten of his half-inch guns, firing in
the aggregate 20,000,000 bullets an
hour. would equal the work of many
regiments OF infantry and sweep
away an army of 100000 men with
in sixty minutes, ii only one per