Early electric gun research

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1 PART 1, 1999, Pages 250-261

  McNab, Lan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric gun; Historical; Review

Indexed keywords

HISTORY; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; PROJECTILES; VELOCITY;

ELECTRIC GUN;

ELECTROMAGNETIC LAUNCHERS;

EID: 0032637964     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.738413     Document Type: Article

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1. I am indebted to COL William E. Jones (U.S. Army, Ret.) for this information.
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