Show super speed pictures show bullet in in might flight J Y g X J wv I 1 I 1 extremely rapid photographs taken at one millionth of a second were demonstrated recently by dr F IV godwin of the armour institute of technology the process of photographing a bullet in flight inset as it breaks through a pane of glass was accomplished by shooting the bullet so that it passes just below two poles of it a spark gap the gases from the firing of the bullet trail the missile thus setting off the spark gap which in turn causes a discharge of volts in a partial vacuum for the necessary illumination an ordinary miniature camera was used in the experiment |