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You can doubtless recall the cannon story about the Royal range trials.I don't follow. Bullets and cannon balls can travel faster than the
By degrees more powder was added to a cannon charge to increase its range -
until a limiting charge, beyond which no more powder could induce an
increase in range. And that of course was an early brush with the speed of
sound...