| Show A MONSTER CANNON GUN IN WORLD BUILT roh FOR OUR COAST DEFENSES DEFENS rS weighs tons and fires a 2500 bound projectile over miles now being tested at sandy hook As in the cise case of a good many other things the united beates leads tile world in the building of at big oid there la Is now at sandy handy hook flook proving grounds the bli gest cannon ever tui guined ned out in the wort corll I 1 not evau the krupp atia works of germany hive alvo ever dreamed of making such a gun the weapon referred refe ried to la Is 1 20 0 yards yarda long and weighs 13 tons the tile by this monster la Is 16 inches in dhimeter and five feet long and weighs a ton and a quarter tho charge of smokeless powder la Is of 0 1000 rounds weight an aal I 1 when the projectile leaves eaves the muzzle it Is trav eling at the rate of 2 feet a the cost of each shot fired at the low est estimate est batlin imite ue Is 1500 1 the gua has bren been discharged eight times it la Is calu calculated that it can bi IN THE luell lit CH 01 THE SUN GUN fired times before it will become bei omo t fro morn that it will be nak abary to rell dellno 0 the bore after which it will lio be good tor for moie bounds before another re ill g in order to make these prodigious gous guns strong enough to withstand th the powder pressure which li ig as high I 1 it as 40 pounds to the square inch they are built of sive layers of hoops each shrunk on the lanei in this monarch there are four lasers special machinery had to be c constructed 0 11 ted for foi handling hind ling this groat g r eat amount ot of steel prom from the beginning of the work until the final inspection was waa nearly three yeura years and the approximate ost was wan rho rhe yun trun was made nt at Water watervliet vliet arsenal ar Benal near wap grent length weight tol tall the use of the railway in its ita transportation so BO a cicat wrecking ligh lightal tar revolved rep rev elved it at the wharf ot of Water watervliet vliet from a specialty specially construct el ed steal car whence it was mas floated to the proving grounds at sandy bandy alook this alece of ordnance has not been mounted and because of its orated length and it will never bo possible ble to secure an elevation greater than 15 degrees it la Is well ell known that 45 5 degrees gives a pr projectile bojec its greatest ranie an aa it its Is however this his ton and ti ink quarter ot of solid metal driven by R full charge of gunpowder will describe an are arc 30 miles in length tho the highest point of which will be more than three miles abbio the surface ot of the land or sea starting from S andy klook hook in quest of a hostile battle battleship ship it would not catch of the vessel until it had climbed well up tip into the sky ehy it to la impossible ot of course for any ally ship chip to carry and handle such a colos sal eal gun it rind and all similar cannon are for harbor end coast defante de fente e nor does it possible ever to construct battleship powerful enough to withstand the terrific impat ot of ona of tho the solid shots ilia I 1 he strongest ironclad ever launched would be shattered and sunk by a single missile that went home bill an I 1 any ship from the sea aa would have to steam four fifths across the tons lone of fatal danger to itself before drawing nigh enough to give effect to its on fire |
