Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1915 — A Wonderful Invention. [ARTICLE]

A Wonderful Invention.

The Jlritish war office has probably had Its fill of warlike inventions submitted to it since August last, but one doubts if it has seen anything quite so wonderful as the machine of a Scotch shoemaker in 1764. Details of the instrument are sadly lacking in the newspapers of the period which described it, but it was announced as enabling six men to do as much as a whole regiment. Forty-four thousand shots in two minutes was its modest rate of fire, and by simply touching a spring one could make it present a “harvest of bayonets” to the 4 enemy. Further, it could he' ’“driven to pieces” in a moment if likely t<f be captured, and put together in a minute ana a half when the danger was past.—• London Chronicle.