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Taser. A TASER device, with cartridge removed, making an electric spark between its two electrodes. Police issue X26 TASER device with cartridge installed. Raysun X-1, a multi-purpose handheld weapon. A TASER is a conducted energy device (CED) primarily used to incapacitate people, allowing them to be approached and handled in an unresisting ...
May 25, 2024 · The Taser is not considered a firearm, because it uses compressed nitrogen to launch the darts. A Taser can also be used as a stun gun by pressing it directly against the target’s body, thereby administering the electric shock. The Taser was first developed in the mid-1970s by American inventor Jack Cover.
Nov 9, 2023 · This new weapon was the TASER, invented by Jack Cover. Growing up in Chicago, he received his doctorate in physics from the University of Chicago. He trained as a nuclear physicist studying...
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Feb 16, 2009 · Jack Cover, the physicist who invented the Taser stun gun, the police weapon that subdues its targets with jolts of electricity, died Feb. 7 in Mission Viejo, Calif. He was 88 and lived in San...
In 1993, Rick and Tom Smith (CEO Set Jet) formed AIR TASER, Inc. to, with Cover, design a version of the device that would use compressed nitrogen instead of gunpowder as a propellant.
Jun 4, 2023 · Drawing inspiration from the fictional "electric rifle" described in the Tom Swift adventure novels, Cover developed the first TASER prototype in 1974. The name "TASER" itself is an acronym derived from the book series, which stands for "Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle."
Other names. Jack Cover. Known for. Taser inventor. Spouse. Ginny. Children. 5. John Higson Cover Jr. (April 6, 1920 – February 7, 2009) was an American aerospace scientist who was the inventor of the taser stun gun.
