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The true facts are as follows: I, with my father, the late Colonel R. M. Cutts, are the long-time inventors of the Cutts Compensator, a device which reduces recoil and improves gun patterns.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1926 the Compensator was offered to the U. S. Government and at that time was not accepted, so that it became necessary to file foreign and additional domestic patents to protect the invention.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since then, its efficiency having been proven, the Compensator has been in use by the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and the Department of Justice.

From Time Magazine Archive

Compensator A B is a stretched wire with added resistances R and R′.

From Response in the Living and Non-Living by Bose, Jagadis Chandra, Sir