Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1920 — Inventor of Smokeless Powder Dies. [ARTICLE]

Inventor of Smokeless Powder Dies.

Omaha, Neb., March 12. —Dr. Hugo William Weightman, who Is said to have been the Inventor of smokeless powder, is dead in a local hospital of influenza. For ten years prior to 1917 Dr. Weightman was professor of anatomy and surgery at Creighton university.