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The Velocities of Projectiles1

Nature volume 42, pages 250–251 (1890)Cite this article

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THE experimenters, whose work is recorded in the papers noted below, have succeeded admirably in their attempts to photograph projectiles while moving with their ordinary velocities. At the same time, they have obtained indications of the forms of the waves excited in the air by projectiles when moving with velocities higher than the normal velocity of sound in the air.

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