Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1890 — The New Giffard Gun. [ARTICLE]

The New Giffard Gun.

It is reported that the Colts, of Hartford, have bought the American rights to the Giffard gun patents for | $1,000,000. The gun is simply A small tube of toughest steel, only nine inches in length, ehatged with liquefied carbonic acid gas, which is one of the most powerful explosives known. *lt is fixed to the barrel of the rifle in such a way that when thd trigger is pulled a drop of the liquefied gas is forced into the breech of the gun behind the bullet, where, instantaneously resuming a gaseous condition, it develops a force equal to 500 pounds pressure oa the square inch. The bullet iu then expelled at any degree of velocity dosired, for the power can be increased or diminish" Iby a simple turn of tlio the screw. T io.e is no txplos on; no smoke, no noise, no recoil, no smell, no heat. A slight fizz, like the so mil of a soda fountain, is the only sound It sends the bullet an immense distance, isnot affcoted by heat or-dam;', and is so cheap that 125 bullets c m be fired at the cost of a cent. .