years of the Second World War. The Livens Projector was created by Captain William Livens of the Royal Engineers. Livens designed a number of novel weapons...
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Harold Hartley said "Livens combined great energy and enterprise with a flair for seeing simple solutions and inventive genius." Livens is best known for...
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inventor, Royal Engineers officer William Howard Livens. Four Livens Large Gallery Flame Projectors were deployed in 1916 in the Battle of the Somme and...
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Livens may refer to: George Henry Livens (1886–1950), British mathematician William Howard Livens (1889-1964), British soldier and inventor of chemical...
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VS-SAPFM3 mine Abwehrflammenwerfer 42 Flame fougasse X-200 mine XM-54 mine Livens Projector see note KhF-1 bounding gas mine KhF-2 bounding gas mine M1 chemical...
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company Projector, a version control system used in the Macintosh Programmer's Workshop Projector, a type of mortar Livens Projector PIAT (Projector, Infantry...
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2-inch mortar 3.7-inch mortar 4-inch mortar Garland trench mortar Livens Projector Newton 6-inch mortar Stokes mortar Vickers 1.57-inch mortar Projectile...
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Livens. Livens was well known for his First World War invention: the "Livens Gas and Oil Bomb Projector", known more simply as the Livens Projector....
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destroy or to protect the emplacement of the projectors. A complementary weapon to the Livens Projector was the 4-inch Stokes mortar which could be broken...
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Howard Livens, had a son who was an army officer on the front line. Captain William Howard Livens was sent to Lincoln, where he developed the Livens Projector...
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