Source: File: The American Machinist logo.jpg. A popular American trade magazine
published since 1877. The Original can be seen at: http://blacksmithandmachineshop.com/American-Machinist-1884-pg1-and-16.html
[Accessed: 18 July 2015].
[Accessed: 18 July 2015].
An unauthorized
advertisement,
Came to light
from 'American Machinist'-
Having been
quoted about
The United States
that related
A supposed new,
brutal explosive.
Originating on
May 6 1915, from
The Cleveland
Automatic Machine Company,
Finally reaching attention
Of His Majesty's
Government
With explosive
effects description.
The wording of
the supposed
Weapon, states
how this is material is made
Of High tensile
strength,
To fracture into
tiny pieces,
With the shells
final explosion.
Shared with
shrapnel shell,
the fuse timer is
the same, but the difference
Is within the
large cavity
Are two explosive
acids, any
Wounds caused
lead to agony
Of a terrible
death, after 4 hours.
Without any
immediate attention,
The advertisement
claimed that conditions
In the trenches,
do not allow
Any medical
treatment within
The allotted time
span - then goes
On to claim that
wounds be cauterised.
This action
should be immediate
Either to the
body or head, or if on any limbs
Amputation would
be course -
As there is no
apparent antidote
That can
counteract the poison, once
The victim has
been hit by this explosive.
The American
Machinist advert
States, that
unlike regular shrapnel wounds,
With fragments or
shrapnel
Balls, wounds are
believed not
Lethal to muscle
unlike the acid bomb.
The false bizarre
advertisement
Published
independently has no grounding
With intent to
give false
Impressions - his
majesty's
Government issued
denial that
No such weapon had
been considered.
by
Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. American
Shells - A Bogus Advertisement. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 17 July. P.10. Col.3.
Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11732107/Daily-Telegraph-July-17-1915.html
[Accessed: 18 July 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100
years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 18 July
2015).
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