Scientist Invents Cannon to Shoot Around Corners

1922

(By Central Press)

LOS ANGLELES, Dec. 1. Oh, what a wonderful time the burglars and police are going to have now that Dr. Max Ritterrath has invented a gun that "shoots around corners."

Ritterrath's invention, which has been offered to the war department is a cannon ball, but suppose that he perfects a revolver bullet with the same characteristics.

Police would have no trouble shooting around phone poles, garbage cans or twenty-seven story buildings, and just think what a time the burglars and gunmen would have shooting around corners at their victims and then picking off the pursuing officers as they left the station house by shooting around two or three city blocks.

But Ritterrath is a real inventor of war materials. He has perfected five inventions which will prove exceptionally useful in war. These are: The cannon ball mentioned above; a big gun without recoil; a fourteen Or sixteen inch shell which travels intact to a certain point and then separates into twenty or thirty smaller ones traveling at right angles to the original; a new projectile traveling forty percent farther than any existing type, and an automatic rangefinder.

His inventions prove that airplanes will not be the only important means of defense in the next war.

—The Ada Evening News, Ada, Oklahoma, December 1, 1922, page 8.