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Barbicane opened the meeting as follows: "Dear colleagues," said he, "we have to solve one of the more important problems in ballistics that greatest of sciences which treats of the movement of projectiles that is to say, of bodies hurled into space by some power of impulsion and then left to themselves." "Oh, ballistics, ballistics!" cried J.T. Maston in a voice of emotion.
But where Americans singularly surpassed Europeans was in the science of ballistics, or of throwing massive weapons by the use of an engine; not that their arms attained a higher degree of perfection, but they were of unusual dimensions, and consequently of hitherto unknown ranges.
It has been necessary first to conduct experiments to test the smokeless powders for velocities and pressures, and then with the powders test various kinds of projectiles and guns. In order to obtain the high ballistics which have been secured, it has been found necessary to cover the bullet with something harder than lead and to rifle the gun in a special manner.
Without doubt the most important division of the General Staff and upon whose information and efforts the whole machine hinges is the Intelligence Department really covering many different fields for instance, general science, especially strategy, topography, ballistics, but mainly the procuring of information data, plans, maps, etc., kept more or less secret by other powers.
It must be used in shells, cylinders, or some other war chemical device. Each device represents a different filling problem, different difficulties with regard to contact of the war chemical and the envelope of the container. If a projectile is in question the ballistics become of importance. More important than any of these, except production, is the question of protection.
And we have Carraway's report that it was Sprague's fingerprints on those nickleplated things you have to press together to make the screen roll up or down. Furthermore, I haven't a doubt in the world that the ballistics expert in Chicago will report that the bullet was fired from the same gun that killed Nita Selim." "Neither have I," Dundee agreed.
According to a simple law in Ballistics, the Projectile was to strike the Earth with a velocity equal to that by which it had been animated when issuing from the mouth of the Columbiad a velocity of at least seven miles a second! To have even a faint idea of this enormous velocity, let us make a little comparison.
Amidst the other flashes, this one wouldn't be noticed particularly. They had covered their trail well." "Well, indeed," said the governor. "May I congratulate you, Mr. Morrison, on this interesting achievement in ballistics?" "As there is no way of properly resenting an insult from a man in your position," said Morrison venomously, "I will reserve my answer to that outrageous suggestion."
Inasmuch as the initial shock did not cause immediate death, the lioness recovered sufficiently to be able, two hours later, to take the offensive. This point is of the greatest interest to the student of ballistics; but it is curious to even the ordinary reader. That is a very typical example of finding lions by sheer chance.
According to the laws of ballistics the projectile would strike the earth with a velocity equal to that which animated it as it left the Columbiad a velocity of "16,000 metres in the last second!"
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