Show I r BIG G GUN IDEA NOT NEW N. N V Hudson Maxim Says It Is Possible to Secure a Ran Range e of Over 60 Miles New York Hudson Maxim inventor Inventor Inventor In In- declared in a n statement issued Sunday regard regarding ng the bombardment of Paris by the ne v ne new v German cannon that It is entirely possible a range range- of over sixty miles with a gun but there is nothing new in the idea I understand that the new projectile projectile tile Is practically of nine-inch nine calibre caUbre said Mr Maxim With a nine inch gun from forty to fifty feet In length and with a maximum elevation of 45 degrees a projectile may may be thrown thrown to toa toa to a distance of more th than n twenty miles Now if we double the calibre of the the- gun w we qUadrUple the area of the base of the projectile If we were to t take ke agun a agun gun of Inch eighteen-Inch calibre and shoot a a. nine-Inch nine projectile from that we we- would have four times the propelling propelling- energy on the base of the shell durin during the entire flight of the projectile through the bore of the gun It would be perfectly possible to to- employ a gun for such purpose of twenty-Inch twenty calibre throwing a sub- sub calibre caUbre projectile of nine Inches Then we would have hav a good deal more than four times the area upon which the the- powder gases would push against the the- w projectile |