Curious Experiment
Anon
Genre: | Reportage, Drollery |
Subjects: | Military Technology, Invention |
Reports on a successful attempt to fire cotton balls (an allusion to the recent invention of gun-cotton) and adds that the 'inventor' seeks to 'send one of the balls through the eye of a needle'. | |
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