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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › TaserTaser - Wikipedia

    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 ...

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      Other names. Jack Cover. Known for. Taser inventor. Spouse....

  2. www.britannica.com › topic › TASERTASER | Description & Facts | Britannica

    The Taser was first developed in the mid-1970s by American inventor Jack Cover. Taser is an acronym for Tom A. Swift Electric Rifle (the Tom Swift books about an inventor of amazing gadgets were a childhood favorite of Cover) and is a brand name for the device, which is manufactured by Taser

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  4. www.officer.com › tactical › less-lethalHistory of the TASER: How It Became an Essential Police Tool

    Nov 9, 2023 · But as popular as the TASER has become, it is hard to imagine that it was mostly rejected by law enforcement. The TASER originally began as one man’s invention created in a garage. The company ...

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  5. www.nytimes.com › 2009/02/16 › usJack Cover, 88, Physicist Who Invented the Taser Stun Gun ...

    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...

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  7. www.police1.com › police-products › less-lethalPolice History: How a NASA scientist invented the TASER

    Mar 21, 2016 · 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’ adventure stories.

  8. www.reuters.com › special-report › usa-taser-scienceShock Tactics: The science behind the revolutionary Taser

    Sep 20, 2017 · Taser founder Rick Smith, as the company headed toward production of stun guns. OVERCOMING ELECTRICAPHOBIA

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