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Scientific American, Vol. 50, No. 19 (May 1884) (1884)

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g the explosion. Mr. Heathsexperiments have consisted in discharging guns whichhad been obstructed at the muzzle by all sorts of dif-ferent substances, such as mud, sand, water, snow, stuckbullets, etc., and of whatever value the experiments mayprove to be, they sjiow one fact very… … L LDYNAMITE CARTRIDGE THROWN FROM CANNON BY POWDER. simple jamming of the projectile against the obstruction, wedo not see how he explains what has become of the air whichfilled the space between the projectile and the obstructionbefore the discharge, nor how he accounts for that totalwreck of…

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