Scientific test on falling bullets
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Scientific test on falling bullets
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Would a falling bullet kill you?
Caption 1: This 175-grain boattail bullet remained in the air 67 seconds; yet others of the same type, discharged at the same instant, stayed aloft 107 seconds, or 40 seconds longer
Caption 2: This 150-grain army service bullet went up nearly two miles and was gone 49 seconds before it returned, tail downward, to dig itself into the sand
Caption 3: Conducting the world's first scientific tests to determine exactly what happens when a rifle bullet is shot straight upward, Capt. Edward C. Crossman discovered astonishing new facts about the rise and fall of the regulation army rifle bullet shown at right, revealing that a falling bullet, if hit you, probably wouldn't cause anything more serious than a headache
Caption 4: From a machine gun mounted on the top platform of his tower, bullets were fired straight upward. Half-inch armor plate covering the lower platform protected observers from returning missiles
Caption 5: Not one of the rifle bullets tested returned to earth with power enough to bury itself more than two thirds of its length in the sand
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Edward C. Crossman (writer)
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
1923-02
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
51
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
Filippo Valle
Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)