Show BIG GUN IDEA NOT NEW Hudson Maxim Says It Is Possible to Secure a Range cf Over 60 Miles New York Hudson Hudson Maxim inventor inventor in in- declared In a statement Issued Sun Sunday a regarding the bombardment of Paris laris b by the new German cannon that It Is entirely possible to secure a range of over sixty miles with a gun but there is n nothing new in the idea I understand that the new projectile tile Ule is practically of nin nine inch inch calibre said Mr Maxim With a nine-inch nine gun from forty to fifty T feet in length and with a maximum elevation of 45 degrees a projectile may be thrown to toa toa ton a n distance of more than twenty miles mlles Now if we double the calibre caUbre of the gun we qua quadruple ruple the area of the base of the projectile If It we were to take a agun agun agun gun of bf f calibre and ond shoot a l nine inch projectile from that we would have hove four times the propelling energy on the base of the shell during the entire flight of the projectile through the bore of the gun It would be perfectly possible to employ a gun for such purpose of twenty-Inch twenty calibre throwing a n sub sub- calibre caUbre projectile of nine Inches Then we would have a good de deal deci I more than four times the area upon which the powder gases gases' would push against the projectile |