ESTABLISHED 1 845 No. 36t BROADWAY NEW YORK. THE EXISTENCE OF BODIES SMALLER THAN ATOMS PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE ARMY TRANSPORT SERVICE ON THE ATLANTIC. A NEW TYPE OF COAST DEFENSE GUN. The Bethlehem Steel Company undertook to design fire a projectile weighing 2000 pounds with 1800 feet velocity and would safely withstand a chamber pres in its performance that is in its rendering of muzzle energy which constitutes the destructive power in projectiles. To look at it in another way this gun will have great power upon armor or any other target in consequence of the weight of its projectile
ESTABLISHED 1 845 No. 36t BROADWAY NEW YORK. THE EXISTENCE OF BODIES SMALLER THAN ATOMS PROPOSED ABOLITION OF THE ARMY TRANSPORT SERVICE ON THE ATLANTIC. A NEW TYPE OF COAST DEFENSE GUN. The Bethlehem Steel Company undertook to design fire a projectile weighing 2000 pounds with 1800 feet velocity and would safely withstand a chamber pres in its performance that is in its rendering of muzzle energy which constitutes the destructive power in projectiles. To look at it in another way this gun will have great power upon armor or any other target in consequence of the weight of its projectile which is very great as compared with the weight of the gun often met with in artillery matters at the time our monitors were built in the civil war is very great. The gun is now at Sandy Hook and at its last ses sion Congress made an additional appropriation which will enable the inventors to purchase a number of pro jectiles for the further proof of the gun. For while the gun is interesting as above indicated owing to its large bore for its weight the primary intention of its inventors is to use it as a torpedo gun. The pro jectile will carry 500 pounds of guncotton or other high explosive and it is believed that upon detona tion of so large a mass of guncotton even outside of a fort or ship great destruction will ensue. It is now to be shown that a charge of this size can be safely landed on a structure which it is intended to destroy and there completely detonated by the action of the fuse. Even however if the danger of firing so large a charge from a gun prohibit its use or if so large a charge cannot be completely detonated in close con tact with a target which is necessary for the full effect of the explosive it still remains that the Gath mann 18-inch gun is an extremely interesting one; for the reason that for the weight of the gun it strikes a more destructive blow except possibly at very great ranges than existing guns. If the greater blow it strikes includes practically
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