James Richard Haskell was an American inventor chiefly remembered for his invention (with Azel S. Lyman) of a multi-charge gun which was intended to increase muzzle velocity by detonating additional propellant charges behind the projectile or shell as it moved up the gun's barrel and was a distant ancestor of the World War II German V-3 "supergun".
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17 September 1843
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Died |
16 August 1897 (aged 53) Passaic, New Jersey
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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