What Happened 97 Years Ago on April 6th?
Richard Cartwright PE, CHMM, (AHMP, IHMM, APICS Fellow)
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Richard Cartwright PE, CHMM, (AHMP, IHMM, APICS Fellow)
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April 6, 1920: John (Jack) Cover, American inventor & aerospace engineer, was born. He invented the Taser stun gun weapon after reading of a man briefly immobilized by an electric fence. In his garage, Cover created a device resembling a flashlight that used gunpowder to fire darts able to deliver an electric shock to a target within 15 feet. He named it with the acronym Taser from the initials of the words in Thomas A. Swift Electric Rifle, adapted from a favorite science fiction book from his childhood. A later design used compressed gas instead of gunpowder to project the dart.
Senior Environmental, Health and Safety at DFA/Meadow Gold Dairies
7yThere are Pros & Cons on both but if a criminal comes to my house armed with a Firearm, I would not be using a taser. There are a lot of armed bad guys out there and I chose to fight back with a Firearm.
Senior Projects Manager
7yThanks Richard, very interesting