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Offline Victor3

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Electrically fired model mortar...
« on: October 28, 2009, 01:08:07 AM »
 Here's one you don't see every day (pic snagged from current ebay auction)...

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Re: Electrically fired model mortar...
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2009, 02:45:08 AM »
Probably some sort of burglar alarm, there were many designs during that period that were percussion or cartridge fired using a trip wire,

I think this is the case of someone trying to build a better mouse trap.




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Re: Electrically fired model mortar...
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2009, 05:13:40 AM »
Looks like science lab demo apparatus to me, ca. 1920's?
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Re: Electrically fired model mortar...
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2009, 10:14:10 PM »
Victor,
This device looks like it could have created a dangerous situation had it been in A. G. Bell's laboratory in the latter 1800's (Hello.... "BOOM").
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