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I HAVE read with great interest Mr. Bashforth's article on a new method of estimating the steadiness of elongated shot when fired from large guns, and I have no doubt that we should have a much better knowledge of every new gun to be brought into service if we could try it, using the Bashforth chronograph, which is the most perfect for measuring the times occupied by a shot in passing over a succession of equal distances. That would give us at once the coefficient of resistance of the air to the projectiles used in that special gun, and then by very simple formulæ and tables the calculation of trajectories (which is one of the main points in artillery) would be a very easy task.
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RISTORI, E. On the Motion of Projectiles. Nature 29, 572 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029572b0
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