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Mar 21, 2016 · The Birth of the TASER. The electronic control device that is used today was invented by NASA aerospace scientist Jack Cover (who reportedly worked on the Apollo moon landing program), who experimented with using electricity as a non-deadly weapon. The history of the TASER ECD dates back as far as 1911 during the publication of the ‘Tom Swift ...
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Oct 7, 2014 · Tom R. asks: Who invented tasers? Early use of an electronic control device, like the TASER, by law enforcement occurred in the 1960s when American police officers used electric cattle prods to disperse Civil Rights activists. As for the earliest cattle prods, this came about when inventor John Burton of Wichita, Kansas received a patent ...
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 · Taser, handheld device that incapacitates a person by transmitting a 50,000-volt electric shock. The Taser fires two small darts, connected to the device with thin wires, up to a distance of approximately 11 metres (35 feet). The darts can penetrate clothing and, once they make contact with the target, deliver the electric shock, which disrupts ...
Nov 9, 2023 · The company’s first weapon, the Air TASER, was designed to address the problems that hindered the original TASER invented by Cover. Instead of using gunpowder, the Air TASER used compressed air.
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Oct 7, 2014 · How the Taser Was Invented. Early use of an electronic control device, like the TASER, by law enforcement occurred in the 1960s when American police officers used electric cattle prods to disperse ...
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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 ...
