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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
Children growing up in the early 1900s would have been familiar with the Tom Swift series of books. In the books, the main character Tom Swift made use of a stun gun. When NASA physicist Jack Clover invented the taser, he gave it that name as a nod to the series. TASER actually stands for “Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle.”
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science fiction has done more for inventions than anyone will ever realize..they say star trek is the main influencer for hand held cell phones, and it goes on and on