Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — New Instrument of Death. [ARTICLE]

New Instrument of Death.

For use in time of war a new explosive shell is forged with longitudinal grooves on its inner surface to insure its bursting lengthwise after firing, thus scattering the shot inside at right angles with the direction of tbe shell. Nothing is easier to understand than how we shouldn’t have made the mistakes we see other people make.