The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 28, 1947, Page 3

5 Eight hundred thousand,” “Not! ser Maston. i .- A moment of silence followed : xyle- is ‘una ‘a eee cna asmu: BE ane aro ag miely sal | would take deveral days to sa : Sec ; that! the cannon. It ignites at 170 the pesistance of ra conte: ees in lace of 240, and its com. ed under. the given! conditions, is Bustion so rapid. that one: may > Premise ve thea, ke a our''set light to it on the top of or- ogg» ne oe, £™2- | dinary ‘powder, sihont latter as_timid; $00 poo ios pro to double *his 800,- having time to of powder.” mOlip it bias on the major A ae ea : more ex MM Kee ‘ “dixteen hundred thousand What matter?” : 7.7. Mas- ounds?” shouted Maston, leaping], om ‘his seat. e “Just so.” “We shall have to come then to + eirinally it imparts to projec- tiles a weloct four Gman, = rior to that-o gunpowder. 1 agg ‘ % my ideal of a cannon half a mile — my El NS te who long; for you see 1,600,000 pounds | ¢Ve” add, that,if we mix with by. “ powder factories during the i 6 occupy a space of about one-eighth of. its own weight ' “We shall have to employ aj| 29,000 cubic feet; and since the mcrae of potassium, its expan- : large-grained powder, its va contents of your eanach, Oo Hot 5 suniseated js again considerably excee cubic feet, it wou ig =" _ tion is more. rapid than that af, be half f ull an d the bore will not snail that be necessary?” asked . more than long eno or the | He “No doubt about fee ae a gas to oneamatnioate to" the pro- on think a. replied Parbicane. tive. ani “by enlarging the | J¢ctile: sufficient impulse.” a lace of 1,600,000 | wb ” “Nevertheless,” said. the presi-| Pounds of powder, we shall have dent, “I hold to that quantity | ut 400,000 pounds of falminat- ds | ing cotton; and:.since we \can, without danger, compress 500 pounds of cotton into twenty- seven cubic feet, the whole quan- tity will not occupy a height of more than 180. feet. within the bore of the Columbiad. In this way the shot will have more than 700 feet of bore to traverse under a force of 6,000,000,000 ‘litres of. gas before taking its ‘flight toward the moon.” This terminated the third meet- ing of the committee. Barbicane .and his bold -col- leagues, to whom noth ‘seemed impossible, had succeeded in-solv- rious cellular: matter which con- stitutes the elementary tissues of ing the complex problems of pro- jectile, cannon,. ‘and powder. Their | vegetables? This substance _ is|i found quite pure in many ‘bodies, | Plan was drawn‘up, and it only epeily "i goto wich ited > Put eps nothing more n the down o A the seeds of the cotton plant. Now| bagatelle,” said J. T. Maston. saab: combined with cold nitric (To be continued) —— - of powder. Now, 1,6000,000 poun of powder will create 6,000,- = | 000. 000 litres of gas. Six thousand millions! You quite understand?” “What is to be done then?” said the i gy eae he thing is very simple; we must reduce this.enormous quan- tity of powder, while preserving to it is mechanical power.’ “Good; but by what means?” “I am ‘going to tell you,” re- plied Barbicane quietly. “Nothing is more easy than to reduce this mass to one quarter of its bulk. You know that cu- necessary ok powa hould | at our er shou take fire instantaneously in order os ‘ats mechanical effect may be We must have,” said Maston, “several touch-holes, so as to fire it at different points at the same ; tp eGertainly nly,". replied Elphin- “but that vill coadar: the working af the piece more. diffi- I return then to my large- gaan geri which removes UF to this point Barbicane had kept.aloof from the discus- ° bern De he left the others to speak ‘ hile he himself enn he had! <wediling of the Flowers” to ba dee iit elaives Hate daughter, Miss Maria Isabel Mar- Presented by Division Street + tines Alfaro, of Cubs, arrived via Aerovias Q plane for a stay of ak « School Children Tomorrow Night | severai weeks with Mrs. Alfaro's: | brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and A vant spring progriin will{ sam. Flower Girls: Mary Ellen Luis Alfaro, of 1102 White- : N rv tac kage: uml and| Baker, Anolan Ybarmea. 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