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A NEW PROJECTILE

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 5, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 2.

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A NEW PROJECTILE.

Mr. W. H. LEWIS, a Welsh gentleman, of Hafod, near Swansea, has invented a new engine of warfare, which will be likely to attract considerable attention. It consists of a cannon, so arranged as to discharge a sharp sword-blade crosswise in the direction of the enemy, the knife or cutter being so poised in its career through the air as to cover the whole space in a longitudinal direction described by the blade itself. An eight-inch ball would carry a sword fourteen feet in length six hundred yards, literally mowing down every human obstacle in its path.—Scientific American.