Water pressure stops bullets in factory testing of machine guns
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Water pressure stops bullets in factory testing of machine guns
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Water pressure stops bullets in factory testing of machine guns
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A new hydraulic bullet trap has
been developed by the General
Motors Corp., Syracuse, N. Y., for use
in the test-firing of machine guns.
The bullets are fired into a tube, near
the mouth of which four converging
jets of water impede their velocity so
that their force is practically spent
when they drop out into a water
cushion at the farther end for subse-
quent salvage.
Safety devices include exhaust ven-
tilation that carries away powder
fumes as the guns are being fired, and
a system of controlling door locks that
‘makes it impossible for anyone to be
near the muzzles of the guns during
test firing. Irving Gilson, inventor of
the bullet trap, is foreman in the
maintenance department at the
Brown-Lipe-Chapin division of Gen-
eral Motors.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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Irving Gilson (Inventor of the bullet)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1945-01
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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96-97
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Sami Akbiyik
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 146, n. 1, 1945
