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Show THE NOISELESS GUN. A Silencer Attachable to Any Rifle Latest Invention of Revolutionary Revolution-ary Nature. "In this age of antilogy we have grown used to the horseless carriage, tho wireless telegraph, the tireless cooker and other contradictions ot fundamental principle, but tho noiseless noise-less gun comes as a shocK, bellelng Its action, upsetting as it does the traditions tradi-tions of a thousand years or mor;, destroying to a large degree the roar of cannon, the cracK or small amis, the malicious purr of the machine gun, and the other attendant explosive sounds which go to make up the nolso of battle, and producing new conditions condi-tions and problems in warfare which are revolutionary to tho extreme," writes Captain Earl D. Church In the February number or the National Guard Magazine. "And all of this is brought about not by the discovery ot a new powder which would require an entire reconstruction or arms to meet Its reactions, nor by the invention ot a new gun, valved, vented and ga8-chambered ga8-chambered as might be possible, botn of which would render obsolete every arm of whatsoever calibre now In existence ex-istence with a calamitous loss to the world running into the Dilllons of dollars dol-lars in tho necessary rearmament; on the contrary, the most radical ro-suits ro-suits are obtained by the invention by Hiram Percy Maxim of a Silencer, so constructed that It can be affixed to any gun made without rebuilding or interfering with the principles governing govern-ing the action of such gun The Silencer is a simple device lor screwing on the muzzle with a series of vortex chambers Into which the gas Is diverted and In a whirling motion mo-tion in a plain perpendicular to the original line of flight behind the bullet. The motion gradually diminishes until un-til complete Inertia results, reducing by actual test the sound of a gun's discharge by 97 per cent. Captain Church's account in The National Guard Magazine is the first authentic account of the invention published by express permission of the inventor, |