Acetylene Trench Gun

Titolo: Acetylene Trench Gun
Oggetto: en Imagined technology & prototypes; en Artillery (and shells); en Chemical warfare
Article Title and/or Image Caption: Acetylene Trench Gun-It's a Great Thrower of Shells
extracted text: ACETYLENE gas does not work well as an engine fuel. It is too explosive. 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. Having thus filled the chamber 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 explosive 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.
Autore secondario: R. A. Brévaire (inventor)
Lingua: eng
Copertura temporale: World War I
Data di rilascio: 1918-04
pagine: 586
Diritti: Public Domain (Google digitized)
Sorgente: Google Books
Referenzia: Paris
Archived by: Filippo Valle; Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)