1930s
The history of revolvers, rifles & other guns, from the Civil War through the 1930s
The smallest member of the gun family, the revolver, which is held in one hand as it is fired. The ancestor of this weapon was the pistol.
The smallest member of the gun family, the revolver, which is held in one hand as it is fired. The ancestor of this weapon was the pistol.
Nikola Tesla, electrical scientist, says not armies alone, but whole populations will be destroyed in war by use of wireless currents — his own air torpedo deadly.
For almost 2,500 years, man was wrong. From the time of Socrates, he had thought of atoms as the smallest particles of matter. In the
60 Percent of Jap City Blasted By Atom Bomb, Reports Show Tokyo Broadcasts Admit All Living Things Seared To Death by New Weapon Results of
The B-1 Bomber The principal launch pad for the airborne cruise may be the new swing-wing B-1 bomber. Designed as a successor to the 25-year-old
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Now even this is “old stuff” A few years ago, the weird shape of Navy’s Regulus II [a supersonic guided sea-to-surface cruise missile, capable of
Winchester rifles Rifles for all kinds of hunting Winchester rifles are not the choice of any one special class, but of all intelligent sportsmen who go to the
Atomic explosions: The record to date Since September 23, 1949, when Russia first got the A-bomb, US has touched off 82 atomic explosions — all
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