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Title
Eight-inch blassistic shell 150 feet beyond muzzle, U.S. Army Ballistic Laboratory
Date Created and/or Issued
1942
1943
1944
1945
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Eight inch shell about 150 feet beyond muzzle, just after being fired, Ballistics Research Laboratory. Note in the hand of Edwin Powell Hubble: "8-inch shell about 150 ft beyond muzzle, velocity about 2300 ft/sec. Microflash exp. @ 1/1,000,000 second." Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "EPH Huntington Library"
Type
image
Format
image/tiff
Extent
Black and white photograph; 22 x 28 cm (8.75 x 11 in.)
Identifier
HUB 1044 (18)
53365
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/231
Subject
Photography, Ballistic
Bullets
Projectiles
U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.)
Hubble, Edwin Powell, 1889-1953
Hubble, Grace Burke, d. 1980
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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