Show V SP SPEED D DF OF F A GULLET LET E It I Tr vel at the tl th Rut Idol Rt o o V 1 1273 7 1 Foot Feet Ot Pel Fez Second t. t How nOW fast does a bullet bulet travel Did Dd you over figure guro on this query and try tryo to o reduce tho the matter to sk figures asks the tho Si St St Louis LOut Republic Colonel Flog Flag levis lers and others who havo have made mado Interesting Inter eating esting experiments looking belying to a solution solution tion ton of this question say that that as 1 a arule arule arule rule rule it U travels i at the tho rate rata of ot 1 1275 feet per second at tho the time of or leaving the tho nib rG This hi of or Ip speed od is b tested in a very int t way A long wooden Bh shed d is h used In which a distance o exactly 1 feet has boon carefully marked 07 01 At each cach end of ot this space Is 1 a stand something like a n target with wills wih a n. largo large circular opening whore a the bulls bull's should be Across each opening is stretched a a small amaH electric wire connected con con- needed with lh a delicate instrument in another room Tho The rifle from rom which the firing fring Is done clone is 1 BO so aimed that tho the bullet bulet which flies fes from Irom It cuts both bolh wires Obviously the difference in inUrn Urn time o between tho the cutting j of the tho two wires marks the tho speed of the tho bullet bult through through that hundred feet feet Measurement Mea Mea- Meas of this Infinitesimal space of time is i done by an nn Instrument called a n chronograph When Whon the first wire Is cut an electric current la Is i broken and a rod lal falls fails moving a n pointer on a slide o in Its descent descant The Tho breaking of the second wire wiro ITO acts in inthe tho the same samo man manner Del on another set of ol rods slides and pointers V The Tho difference differ dUrer- once ence in the tho to marks made by the pointers point ers erson on the slides makes ma es it possible to estimate the difference fn n their time Ume of falling mid and fro from thos calculations accurate l figures ures as to tol the tho bul bullets speed are aro obtained 0 I |