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Jack Cover
John "Jack" Higson Cover, Jr. (April 6, 1920 – February 7, 2009) was the inventor of the Taser stun gun.〔
==Biography==
Cover was born in New York City on April 6, 1920, and grew up in Chicago.〔 His father was a professor of economics. His mother earned a mathematics master’s degree at the University of Chicago (U of C).〔 Cover earned a bachelor's degree and a doctorate in nuclear physics at U of C,〔 studying under Enrico Fermi.〔Cover's obituary, Time Magazine, early 2009 (before March)〕 During World War II, he was an Army Air Force test pilot. He later worked at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. He was a scientist at North American Aviation from 1952 until 1964 and also worked for NASA〔 (Apollo program), IBM and Hughes Aircraft.〔
In 1970, he formed Taser Systems, Inc., named for a Tom Swift novel about the Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle. Because the Taser used gunpowder to launch the darts, the federal government considered it a firearm, a classification that ruled out a civilian market and also discouraged police and military sales.〔
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