To: Rusty0604
The other one was coil gun: a tube surrounded by a coil and powered by a standard AA battery.
Sounds like the kid made a rail gun.
7 posted on
04/10/2014 2:22:39 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
The other one was coil gun: a tube surrounded by a coil and powered by a standard AA battery. Sounds like the kid made a rail gun.
Back around 1968 I had a electrical shop teacher ( when was the last time you heard of that) that taught us to build coil guns and we shot nails across the room.
16 posted on
04/10/2014 2:34:15 PM PDT by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: cripplecreek
Sounds like the kid made a rail gun. Exactly. According to another article, it was
an electromagnetic coil gun, which freshman Asa Ferguson submitted and was later confiscated. “It has [applications] in roller coasters and spaceships. It’s been theorized to be able to launch spaceships in space for cheaper,” Ferguson said. “I think that if I had said it was an electromagnetic propulsion system it would not have been taken out.”
25 posted on
04/10/2014 3:10:46 PM PDT by
cynwoody
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