"Machine gun invented by Levi W. Lombard of Boston, capable of firing 55,000 shots per minute. Operated by motor, gasoline, steam, or hand and does not have a barrel. Hollow ammunition is fed from a tube beneath the revolving disk. Bullets penetrated three-quarters inch steel plates in a test."

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