Beginning Notes: badly-knitted I got the image in my head of Jack telling his soon-to-be-wife stories about how in 100 years teaching girls maths and the sciences will be the norm and how we will utter a female scientists name in the same breath of male scientists without giving it a second thought.
Double posts again.
Title: Item Log 2
Author: Daashi
Fandom: Torchwood
Characters: n/a
Pairings: n/a
Rating: 13+
Genre: Drabble, Fictional Report
Warnings: n/a
Item TW3/1961-03-24/001
A weapon of unknown origin.
Found in Llandaff Fields, close to Cathedral Road. Response to rift alert. Refer to Rift Report 1961/12, Incident 7.
A cylindrical rod 15.4 centimetres in length. Discharge point is 3.7 centimetres in length. Photographs have been taken [attachment 1].
Metallurgy report [attachment 2] indicates that the object in question to be made from 96% Cadmium. Other 4% is unidentified and presumed to be non-terrestrial in origin.
While being physically examined the object in question gave off an electrical discharge. This interaction was replicable [attachment 3].
Tested object on Operative J. Harkness [attachment 4], proved to result in a non-lethal debilitation upon skin contact.
Currently being examined by Torchwood Cardiff's technical specialist Operative R. Hopkins to explore the prospect of reverse engineering the object to produce a weapon designed as a method of non-lethal debilitation for human and close-to-human targets.
~End
Word: Debilitation
de - bil - I - ta - tion (noun)
Debilitate; de - bil -I -tate (verb) : to make week or feeble; enfeeble
End Notes: And lo and behold the birth of the Stun Gun. The Taser begun development in the early 60's and wasn't a finished product until the early 70's. I assumed that it was a parallel development situation otherwise why wouldn't Torchwood just modify the Taser to make it easier to recharge and reuse, because using at a distance is much more safer than requiring close contact.
Also I think that the rift reports (reports on all rift activity with links to all the related incidents) are done on a weekly basis.