Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1914 — MAKES AIM ALMOST CERTAIN [ARTICLE]

MAKES AIM ALMOST CERTAIN

Invention Said to Guaranteo Every Bhot a Bullseye, Even in thn Dark.

Charles Pechard, a police official of Paris, has invented an attachment that enables one to shoot a revolver more accurately in the dark than in broad daylight, the New York Independent states. This attachment consists of a metal-, lie tube with a lens at one end and a tiny electric lamp at the other. By means of mirrors the light is directed out through the lens as a slender cone, and Is sufficiently strong at a distance of some four rods for all practical purposes. In the middle of the Illumination field there is a small dark spot which coincides with the line of the bullet’jß flight. This enables the Inexperienced shooter to hit a selected part of the burglgr’B anatomy with more certainty than he could display In ordinary target practice. The electric current is supplied by a small dry battery or a storage battery, which the officer can carry in his pocket or which the defender- of the home can place under his pillow. The light tube can be attached to an ordinary pistol, and it may be used as a flash with peaceful intent or merely as a show of force.