Chapter

 1 I    |   returned into the arsenal, the shot were repiled, all bloody
 2 II   |         be possible to project a shot up to the moon?”~At these
 3 IV   |    Consequently, the weight of a shot will decrease, and will
 4 IV   |        question.~Answer.— If the shot should preserve continuously
 5 IV   |         earth will impart to the shot, and as the shot cannot
 6 IV   |          to the shot, and as the shot cannot reach the moon until
 7 VII  |         Rodman Columbiad threw a shot weighing half a ton a distance
 8 VII  |          proper to assign to the shot. You understand that we
 9 VII  |          the major.~“Because the shot,” quickly replied J. T.
10 VII  |      Mahomet II., in 1453, stone shot of 1,900 pounds weight were
11 VII  |       Armstrong guns discharging shot of 500 pounds, and the Rodman
12 VII  |          times the weight of the shot of Mahomet II. and the Knights
13 VII  |            since the weight of a shot is proportionate to its
14 VII  |     decidely it must be. A solid shot of 108 inches would weigh
15 VII  |        question is not that of a shot intended to pierce an iron
16 VII  |            replied Barbicane. “A shot of 108 inches in diameter,
17 VIII |          fright at the idea of a shot weighing 20,000 pounds being
18 VIII |        times the diameter of the shot, and its weight two hundred
19 VIII |          forty times that of the shot.”~“That is not enough,”
20 VIII |        you are well aware that a shot quits a rifled gun less
21 IX   |  calculation. The old 24-pounder shot required for its discharge
22 IX   |      powder to send its half ton shot a distance of six miles.
23 IX   | increased with the weight of the shot; that is to say, if a 24-
24 IX   |          to say, if a 24-pounder shot requires sixteen pounds
25 IX   |       this, that as soon as your shot becomes sufficiently heavy
26 IX   |        part of the weight of the shot.”~“Perfectly correct,” said
27 IX   |       Columbiad. In this way the shot will have more than 700
28 X    | Barbicane was a great founder of shot, Nicholl was a great forger
29 X    |         Barbicane invented a new shot, Nicholl invented a new
30 X    |          have to give way to the shot; nevertheless, there were
31 X    |          substituted for conical shot simple 600-pound shells,
32 X    |          seemed to rest with the shot, when the war came to an
33 X    |        plate to the shock of any shot, solid, hollow, round, or
34 X    |        No. 5 ($5,000).— That the shot will not travel farther
35 XI   |       bust up” at the very first shot.~“Very well, let it bust
36 XII  |      that the mere despatch of a shot to the moon could possibly
37 XV   |        suddenly pealed forth and shot its flame into the air.
38 XVII |         for the discharge of the shot to the moon. To the general
39 XVIII|    originally proposed to send a shot to the moon every one looked
40 XXI  |          between iron plates and shot, and, finally, that the
41 XXI  |       the unfortunate Barbicane, shot, was perhaps lying dead
42 XXI  |         each other’s skulls with shot?”~There was in “the situation”
43 XXV  |         large quantity of balls, shot, and powder.~“We cannot
44 XXVI |         An immense spout of fire shot up from the bowels of the
45 VII  |        present conditions, ideas shot up in their brains as leaves
46 XX   |         a question of powder and shot; and every time the moon