Acetylene trench gun
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Acetylene trench gun
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Acetylene Trench Gun-It's a Great Thrower of Shells
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extracted text (Extract Text)
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ACETYLENE gas does not work well
as an engine fuel. It is too ex-
plosive. However, a Paris inventor, R.
A. Brevaire, would turn this to good use
The lower part of his
machine consists of a
chamber into which air is
forced under pressure, or
sucked in by the rush of
an outgoing shell. Hav-
ing thus filled the cham-
ber with air, the operator
next admits a small
quantity of acetylene gas
by means of a valve. Air
and the gas intermingle
forming a highly explo-
sive mixture. This is set
off at will by means of a
spark plug and a suitable
coil. Shells are inserted
in the gun by dropping
them through the muzzle,
rear-end foremost. If the
gun-barrel is unrifled,
wings at the base of the
shell make it spin and fly
true. A sound-deadening
chamber is fastened to the
outer end of the gun; it is
built on the principle of an
automobile muffler.
This gun is new in being
the first trench gun to use
gas as an explosive.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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R. A. Brévaire (inventor)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1918-04
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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586
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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References (Dublin Core)
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Paris
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Filippo Valle
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 92, n. 4, 1918
