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The Wind Cannon and
Vortex Gun Although this device was real, its
actual purpose was a complete mystery to the allied war effort. Since it did
some vague wind stuff, they assumed it was a “Tornado Machine” or some type
of wind weapon. Although a good guess, that is not the
purpose for this technology. It was designed and built for the purpose of
Generating winds, to generate clouds, which could generate not rain but a
thunderhead. A thunderhead which when harnessed
the lightening might be able to produce electricity. Electricity which would
then be used to power one of the many Systems. Now something of profound interest. Knowing how much electricity was
needed (1.21 gigawatts, ha ha) one of the things NMIMT specialized in was in
the study of Electricity and Thunderheads through Lightening. Dr E. J. Workman,
Dr Colgate, and Robert Jeffries M.A. of NMITM collaborated
on this type of technology from 1945-1964. Portions of this technology were
shipped from Germany to Tech immediately upon the allies seizing control over
it. Dr workman was already an expert in Frankenstein Tech. His
academic career focused on the study of Lightening. That which powers the Tabernacle.
The wind cannon, or WindKanone, and
the vortex gun were German anti-aircraft projects, designed to use the power
of wind to damage enemy aircraft in flight. The wind cannon was designed and built
by a firm outside of Stuttgart, and the vortex gun was the work of researcher
and scientist Mario Zippermayr. While the two both
relied upon wind and turbulence to damage aircraft on bombing raids over
German cities, they were quite different in both construction and operation. The wind cannon consisted of a 3-foot in diameter cast iron
tube, some 35-feet in length. This was loaded with a shell packed with
hydrogen and ammonia to create a burst of compressed air. When shot at an
aircraft, the intent was that the explosive burst of wind or air would damage
the plane in flight. While the weapon did successfully shoot shells of
compressed air, the planes, even when flying quite low, withstood it without
difficulty. In fact, the wind cannon appeared to have no effect at all on
planes. The wind cannon was later tested on enemy troops; however, this was
also ineffective. The 35-foot metal structure was easy to spot, making the
people manning it an easy target on the field. The vortex gun was a large-bore mortar weapon buried into the
ground. It was packed with a combination of coal dust and a slow-burning
explosive. The intent was for the shell to explode, creating a wind vortex or
fake tornado. In theory, this tornado would bring down any plane caught in it.
In tests, the vortex gun performed well in perfect conditions, but war rarely
provides perfect conditions. Zippermayr
worked on a number of other projects relying on coal dust, including the HexenKesser, or witch’s cauldron. This was an attempt to
create a weapon of mass destruction by exploding coal dust over a target.
After the war, Zippermayr became known for his
treatments for respiratory illnesses, including pertussis. |
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