An “Honorable Mention” was certainly in order for the British inventor Edward Dartford Holmes who conceived of a three tiered, time fuse anti-artillery shell:

“Briefly, his scheme calls for a shrapnel shell containing a number of compartments which are each exploded in turn at predetermined intervals.”


(Time fuses would be perfected after the war)

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