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Sixty years later a non-lethal weapon delivering an electric shock was developed by Jack Cover and marketed by Taser International under the name "Taser", an acronym for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle. The middle initial 'A' is used to produce a word more pronounceable than "TSER", as no other name than "Tom Swift" is used for the book's hero ...
A TASER device, with cartridge removed, making an electric spark between its two electrodes Police issue X26 TASER device with cartridge installed. TASER (also variously "Taser" or "taser") is a brand of conducted energy device (CED) primarily used to incapacitate people by delivering an intense electric shock that briefly disrupts voluntary control of the muscles, allowing the person to be ...
The Times Atlas of World History is a historical atlas first published by Times Books Limited, then a subsidiary of Times Newspapers Ltd and later a branch of Collins Bartholomew, which is a subsidiary of HarperCollins, and which in the latest editions has changed names to become The Times Complete History of the World.
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TASER shares are up 1.1% in response to the news, adding a dime per share to the stock price, and more than $5 million to TASER's market cap -- or about five times the value of the stun-gun sales ...
A Taser is a compressed-gas-powered device in the shape of a handgun that releases two probes connected to the device by 15ft wires at high speed. The probes pierce the skin and temporarily ...
The explosion is one of the cleanest in the history of atmospheric nuclear tests per unit of power. The first stage of the bomb was a uranium charge with a capacity of 1.5 Mt, [ 36 ] which produced a large amount of radioactive fallout, but more than 97% of the explosion power was provided by a thermonuclear fusion reaction, which does not ...
During World War II, he was an Army Air Force test pilot. He later worked at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake . He was a scientist at North American Aviation from 1952 until 1964 and also worked for NASA [ 3 ] (Apollo program), IBM and Hughes Aircraft .