Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1909 — SHOWS HOW HIS GUN “SILENCER” WORKS [ARTICLE]

SHOWS HOW HIS GUN “SILENCER” WORKS

Hiram Maxim Says Invention Drowns Sound of Gannon. New York Feb. 9. —The first public demonstration of the new “gun silencer" was given here by its inventor, Hiram Percy Maxim, before prominent gun manufacturers and sporting men. The device is a little cylindrical affair barely six inches long and about an inch in diameter, which fits in the muzzle of any gun. United States army rifles and other powerful guns were fired with the anti-noise attachment and the resultant report was scarcely louder than a mild handclap Maxim declared that the device would be effective with heavy artillery.