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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 365

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NIGHT FIRE PHOTOGRAPHING ITSELF — THE PLATE IS EXPOSED BY THE CONCUSSION OF THE GUNS. chance—taking photographs of gun-fire would bean impossibility, for, at the instant when the gunsare fired and the exposure of the plate should be … ENRIQUE MULLER, JR. made, the thundering noise and the oscillatingmotion, combined with the terrific shock, seemcompletely to stun and paralyze one —it is all thatone can do to hang on and brace himself safely, in order to avoid being dashed to pieces on thedecks far below. Once, while standing…

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