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Show Wlsat a M.iJi'in Cud Can Io. Unless one is actually brought into business relations with tie-great tie-great science of modern warfare ! says the Boston Traveler, it is difficult diffi-cult ti conceive of the terrible power of the latest and largest guns. These engines of destruction, destruc-tion, weighing 1 10 tons, hurl a projectile pro-jectile of solid steel sixteen inches in diameter and nearly four feet long at a velocity of 2,078 feet a second. When tested recently, one of these guns sent a shot through twenty inches of steel armor, eight inches of iron, twenty fat of oak. five feet-of granite, eleven feet of concrete and three feet of brick. Comparatively, a locomotive weighing weigh-ing 200,000 pounds would have to spin along the track at the rate of loo miles an hour to strike a blow equal to that projectile. Think of the damage wrought in a railroad collision where the train speeds almg at the rate of thirty miles an hour, and one may calculate the destructiveness of modern ordinance. |