[Lee Stewart]

From the novel Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle, published in 1911

Jack Cover, a NASA physicist and creator of the first TASER in the 1970s, was inspired by the writings of Victor Appleton. TASER is, in fact, an acronym for Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle, a reference to the main character who uses the device in a series of over one hundred Victor Appleton novels published between 1910 and 1941.