Show BIG guta GU NEW H hudson ails on milada max lm says ks itis it Is possible to secure a ran range ge of over 60 miles miler new york hudson hudon 31 maxim axim inventor declared in a statement issued sunday regarding the bombardment of paris by the new german cannon that it Is entirely possible to se curea range of over sixty miles wit with a gun but there nothIng is diew in the idea 1 I understand that the ahe n new ew projectile Is practically of illi nine ne inch calibre I 1 said mr air maxim with a nine lac inch h guu gun from forty to fifty feet ln in length and with a maximum elevation of 45 degrees a projectile may be thrown to a distance of more than twenty miles 1 enow lf if we dou alethe calibre of them the gun we quadruple th the e drea area odthe atthe base of the projectile if w we e were to take a 0 gun of eighteen inch calibre and shoot a nine inch projectile from that we would have four times time the propelling energy on tile bage nse of the shelf durIng tile the en dalr alre i e flight of bf th the projectile through tigh the bore of the gun 1 I it woula would be bd perfectly possible to I 1 employ ja a gun for such purpose of twenty inch calibre throwing a sub ca calibre projectile of nine incha then we would have h a gw good deat diore more afia n four times th e area upon ulion which the powder gases would husli 1 against the projectile |