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From: jon%vector0@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US (Dazed N. Confused)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: How to make a RAIL GUN?
Message-ID: <X0PaZ4w163w@vector0>
Date: 24 Mar 91 04:28:20 GMT
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     Hi.  I was talking to a friend about a Rail Gun --- a device that
through magnetic induction is able to fire an object at enormous
speed.  I was wondering if I could build a scaled-down model.

     This pico-Rail Gun would fire metal washers hopefully 2 feet.


     Any ideas?  Besides just winding a bunch of wire around a
cardboard tube and hoping for the best, that is.


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