Show Im 7 1 c 4 5 w wT T y r ri i 4 5 s z z oC P f powder wo we 0 have long 1001 had Woodless bloodless battles have hao often otten S been fought fou bt and duly chronicle chronicled by hy bytho tho worlds greatest historians but Jut not until early In the month of or February of or this year was the public taken Into the Inventors confidence ant and ghen gIven nn on to see sec or rend read of ot the noiseless gun sn The noiseless c gun n IN III here heren a reality reo lit In every essential and ond Its practIcability JI rn ell en 11 III t bus has leon been made madu Just as os pat patent cat ent as nil Its It reality To the of or his bin patent attorneys In 10 Row New York Hiram Percy Maxim Invited incited d a n few to newspaper men nien and und those of or his bin Intimate friends who are Interested lot crested In firearms either from tho vIewpoint of n a sportsman or a il and there exhibited and ond demonstrated d the little do device delce Ice attachable to any anT gun lIun whether It bo be of or the Flobert rifle or standard army type which completely silences the report following the tho explosion sion ilon of ot tho the cartridge when tho the gun eun Is fired This demonstration was mado on one erie of or J New ew Yorks busiest thoroughfares within u a tones stones s throw of Broadway and nud easily ell within earshot of ot e police II co head hend Haarlem Not only anly did the test prove proe conclusive conclusIvely nil all that the Inventor claimed cJ for tor his bis de dc detlee derice rice but furthermore when firing the recoil r oll which invariably follows tho lie tiring of ot a heavy beavy gun la Is completely done away with Both the noise and ond kick haio been beeD elImInated by hy the tame Mme process a apro pro pr es uI no III a simple nod and no so III different rent from t which rumor r had bad defined It aa IS to tl be he almost unbelievable The Tho Inventor dl ills charted charged guns gins of or various power and aud both with and nn without the sIlencer Ho He shot cartridges which leave heave the gun tun with witha n a velocity n lo of or 2700 feet n a second and with n a power that represents represent nn an Impact of or one ODe mini a quarter tons to tl the square quON Inch to knock down d wn ant kill the tho of ot elephants COO dis tent tant Rigged up In to tho the office was n a gallery like box ten f feet t In length len th At the rear of this box boa was as another hilled filled with sand Mod and this Band san heap stopped thin tho bullets that sped forth from the tho deadliest titles rifles R A I ELES m f for in c i f r i o f 7 0 i i ifor ii r e 75 f f fk s 04 ii L tk 1 v J hJ T TC J J I I JU c J 70 r 5 i M iI c S J BO t j jo I m p r tZ J i 1 l 0 n j i 1 J i s I Ie IJ II t 4 t ii i t tc tC f z g r 4 j 5 ii 5 I f J I i F i i I w I m tj II r 1 W Wi t i iJ Ii 5 t j 0 M d dt Ii W r rI rl y c ct cr t c r C S 1 Si J 0 y s Y 2 k C e III I known to modern ordnance e Tho The target too loo 1 Is III nu an Invention of or Maxims amid nud be beseemed beseemed beseemed seemed to bo ho Quito quite as IlI proud of ot the tho do de dovice vice lieo for stepping bullets as ns he be was wa of or the attachment that put a R quietus on the tho guns from Cronl row which they were omitted emitted The principle on which the Maxim si 81 silencer lencer macor Inc r Is iii l based 1 Is I that t of ot centrifugal force torce or the properties possessed by rap rapIdly Idly routing bodies of or tiling flying out from Lie tho center When n a rifle equipped wIth one of these silencers Is tired fired cJ the tho bullet passes parses l through a cylindrical silencer without the slIghtest loss los In velo velocity nc uc curnc curacy or penetration The powder gases a cs csor of or discharge d 1 however upon entering tile the silencer ore are rotated or whirled very v ry rapidly und amid therefore fly out of or tie Iho pc pee periphery of or the silencing chamber AH As the tho only means of or exit to the open aIr Is III near the tho center of or the silencer the gases aBt are om u mi bit to escape until they have havo si wed shovel down This showing I down taunt must needs n d bo be Je relatively gradual therefore tho escape of the gases Fas s to the open nit nitIs Is proportion proportionately gradual no re report report report port In his hIM tests Mr Maxim lined nit nil the mooch model of ot sporting and aud military rules d In this and amid Europe nod tho the result was with the use of ot his hl device delce attached to the muzzle of or thu ibm title rifle be he tired the largest lor shoulder guns gun In modern WiC with u a l report less Ics by hy for far Dr than that which would come cem from Crom fromn froma n a toy air tithe rifle Tim Iho guns uns employed In tho the test ranged from n a 1 Winchester target rule rifle to the tho eight millimeter Mauser and the tho 30 20 21 Springfield lIeh military rifle tho the standard gun un ot of the United Statin Army Arm First the tie guns were tired without the attachment to show what the normal re rl report report port was Tho effect was sync wo disconcerting to sa so say thu least As tile big 1 11 gune harked the report was wan wn nil but bot deafening window pane In tu the tie big hI building rattled and be reverberation could coull bo heard blocks block distant Tho The silencer wan won then screwed on to the lie muzzle of or the guns uns nail and with the same cartridge tho report was scarcely loud lond enough h to be audible nt It all III the lie noise resulting being that t of the tho v whirring of or the bullet hullet amid un Its punk ao on It burled Itself In the sand Pit t Tho The silencer Itself Is n a cylindrical bit hit bitof bitof of or gunmetal For Kor nn an ordinary sporting rifle the silencer Is III four tour Inches long about un an Inch cud an nn eighth In diameter nod and weight weIghs but hut live five entices it Is B shIll lulU mail ilia II to he be carried carrl d In pans vest pocket without the slightest hence lenco an It tan can bo hi adjusted to or re ic removed moved from the gun suo In less lens than thon the flo second I A few tew threads emit cut Into luto the th muzzle muzzle ale end of ot tho the gun guu un Is hi nil that la ta necea n e ar mini about three twists of or tho wrist tied tho the silencer Is ready for bunt busi business ness uces There Is III no Interference with the shoot shootIng shootIng shootIng Ing qualities of n a s gun D since the tho tore bore bar of ot the tho th barrel Is III not miot disturbed In an any man mannor nor ncr The Tho bore Jore of the thc silencer Is U larger than tIm Iho bullet hullet which passes through It giving a clearance which molds nn any pus pos title effect on OD accuracy or penetration Owing to the tho location of ot the SIlenCer on 0 tIme Iho end cod of or the barrel It Is IR uppercut that tho hi bullet hullet hOB has acquired Its full Impetus before tho the discharge gases are nrc slowed hence there can he hp no sacrifice of or velocity B Dr By way woy of ot demonstrating that the Ibo aIr at nt the muzzle of thc tho rUc In is ills 1118 by br the passage of oC tho the bullet and not by 11 the tho explosion of e gas fo Mr AIr Ir Maxim held n visiting card n a tow fow o Inches In rent front of oC the silencer r Then one of ot hIm bib assistants discharged the gun gUD with the tho i I result that the bullet hullet passed cleanly through a comer corner of or the curd card leaving not the slIghtest trace of or powder or orn ora n a discoloration of ot any tort ort lint But when ho he tried tiled the thc trick with tho the sIlencer off 00 the card nil the Ibo lIttle that held It were reduced to shreds und and these black blackened blackened ened ned and amid burned hurne bj by IJ the This Tho simplest t simile Is 18 employed by hT Mr Maxim to explain the B system stem m of or his 1118 silencer and along which lines he hi long Ion worked ho had bad perfected his Ws Tho The reel r nl principle of the thing Mr MaxIm wild saIl Is IB precisely that which pre pro pren yenta n nt water wAler running out of or n a set bowl Jo t 1 when yon joti 01 pull the stopper out of ot tho bowl after the water lion has been male to lo whirl or revolve reole r ole In tho the vessel Tuel The ox genes gasca utter lifter belli beIng made to whirl around In 11 tOe silences escape sod Bud denly I SImply reverse the process pro ep In a n turbine tur you ou have bao It III In reality my Is n a negative turbine Ant And such It really Is III IIII I err sportsman will be he quick to real Izo lint t n a noiseless or virtually a noIse nol noIseless e eless less rifle will timid uld materially to lo the do Ic lights of or hunting nut lint Mr hns lies made mOlle It clear that such lIuch u it weapon would not help hell the tue pot hunter hUll tel ns nil much us mis has hns hasteen teen been claimed The noise of oC the lie Juliet bullet through the tho air will wilt of or Itself startle a II herd Into flight u h the lie herd Is quite ns as II likely 1111 to 10 run tower toward the gun Jun ns ima n away own from Crom It The Inability to tl lOcate the tho source of the slight sll ht b lIr by n a ngun agun gun sun with n a attached nt d could C uld have hll been hc far better bettor demonstrated In tho the open opeo Air In lu n it close chose chamber Even F n there the only noise nole noticeable was 19 that of or tho tb bullet out or burying itself In the lie baud box hox The sound hound of ot n a thousand or ten thom saul nIl of or these th o rifles being fired tired nt lit once would hI be tie no 10 slight Might however ns nl to make It possible for tor nil ill orders to be heard b Il ba Ilu my mya a u regiment r when w en b by J Ito Ita li lithe I Ith ithe the th regulation tray inv uy This accomplished there th rc has line been teen n a complete rove re 10 In military nud amid warfare With the crooking crackIng III and amid roar of n a volley of or deafening everything thing else olo lit au In lii battle or realizes that the lie silencer will provo prove n a In room mOl than thon one With the In use uso tho the orders raj 1 bo be given ghon und mind heard Just justas ns nR r In tho ho heat bent of or battle battlo as n when nt lit drill The lies hns been raised by 11 many persons among thorn them the tho police chiefs of or the largest cities It s In III the country that Mr Ir Maxims latest Invention will prove proe a II serious drawback In detecting crime lu in lur reality r placing the tho detectors of crime at ata n a great groat and giving of or g getting In ha their deadly work and before thoy they can cun In IK ho I over ocr overtaken taken luken For this reason and this thin alone silencers are ure not to bo be made so 10 o that they can cnn be Je adjusted to tl revolvers or small arms A bill hili Is now new no pending In the New Now York legislature 1 which coers COC this point paint Limit but this Mr Ir Maxim claims Is 18 entirely unnecessary ns os bo he has hns no Intention of ot applying his bis bl to pistols The Tho problem now confronting him how however however ever eer Is a II silencer for Cor how artillery rJ Ho lie claims that the tho tb report from our heaviest cannon enn can be bo a silenced lie need quito nu mis effect 0 c e i ezz Ively irely by bv his device to their is as m the smaller types of oC rifles Tho The handicap under v whIch ho Is laboring Just now IH is that of or being unable to flail a j high ten tension lon regulation army field piece or cannon CliO nOli with which to experiment These guns Iun cost a 1 small fortune and so 60 far thIs IhU government lies hns not manifested stell Interest In the tIme silencer to place nt ot the Inventors disposal IlI ono one of oC Its cost coat costI l I ly coast const or field pieces The Inventor claims that with such a n agun gun to operate with and lie thu opportunity afforded r o e him I to emit cut threads e nt at the tho bo mus I zIe of the cannon n nc In less I then n a month l ho would ho bo re ready id to tl make molee n a public demon demonstration In iii which ho would wager w er all nil ho lie hoever ever eer expects to 10 have Ime that the time noise fol following oh lowing the discharge would be uc so slight that It would not hot lie IlL audible feet t t Ills dis a I Although Althou h tho o tl experts In ordnance I Ihn who hn were designated by Imy tho than War De Do Department D Imo have witnessed the tho tests teJ ts of or the ln lm albacore and reported favor favorably nul ably on their In warfare It Itle I le III Urn tho m i Navy Nary ary to which tho the silencer most niost appeals Hundreds mind nud thon thousands andu d of our jur gunners have hail had their cur car drums split spilt whIle tiring OrIn the big bl guns guna on shipboard Tho The some same applies to 10 tie tha big hI guns huna of or our const coast defense defence l Mr Ir Muslin Maxim now claims that by hI applying th the silencer to this tb t guns gun In till the turrets tUf tl of ot our battleships I trial that the gunners could stand by and aud tIre hIre j jas as rapidly us they could reload relond them without the tho slightest Inconvenience There would be no roar or reverberation I The Time battle could proceed so quietly the Inventor maintains tint that those thoss tho e n a hundred reli I yards distant would not know kno that tiny I thing thIn unusual WON wet transpiring Aud Anil this Is the tho pro lcm that has boa ho FO so long per perplexed r the Naval Board tint of oC over overcoming nT overcoming r J coming the Injury to gunners In lu In the tur turrets turrets turrets of or battleships when hieu the gun gnus out It Is 18 hIghly probable mica that tho the Inventor tins has protected lila hl patents lu nil 1 of or the countries of oC the tho world that ho lie will soon give Ive n a public test of oC tile his silencer end and that hint Congress will take some towards having experiments with the big his t fr guns kuns 1111 heavy heny artillery manIc made ma maIr Mr Ir IH I a 11 wiry little latin of ot the German type although he lie Is In nn nit English Englishman Eu li b I man maim by birth He lie Is the th son Ron of ot t Sr SIr r j Hiram MaxIm who nan nas nn won fame na ni nn on nail and manu mane manufacturer of or big guns guus of ot nil alt types I |