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The Man Who Built A Gun To Shoot Space

Behind the Bastards

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The Artillery of Bull's Gun - A Brief History

Bull was working on a smooth bore gun that could fire explosive rounds at four thousand 500 an d, 50 miles per hour. His plans to do this were considered impossible by staff at the organization he was working at. He sneakily moved his departments funding around, paying for the project under their noses. And it worked. Bull continued his work, more or less without fanfare, for the next decade,. experimenting with anti ballistic missiles in radar.

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