Thomas Shelton was an American aircraft designer and inventor of the
vortex ring gun
The vortex ring gun is an experimental non-lethal weapon for crowd control that uses high-energy vortex rings of gas to knock down people or spray them with marking ink or other chemicals.
The concept was explored by the US Army starting in 199 ...
, which he developed into
vortex ring toys.
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American aerospace designers
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