Those who have not heard of
electric guns that fire without gunpowder and use the power of a magnet are behind the times.
And he was about 100 years behind. In June 1932, the magazine Modern Mechanix reported on the achievements of science, and in fact continued the work of Tesla and the Russian inventor Filippov. "Silent cannons sending their whistling messengers of death into the sky at speeds far in excess of those now attained by gunpowder shells seem likely for the next war, using magnetic fields so powerful for motion that when short-circuited they cause miniature earthquakes."
Promising developments, expectedly,
got lost-forgotten, and people went back to gunpowder weapons and gasoline and gasoline-powered vehicles.
