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A hail cannon is a shock wave generator claimed to disrupt the formation of hailstones in the atmosphere. These devices frequently engender conflict between farmers and neighbors when used, [ 1 ] because they are loudly and repeatedly fired every 1 to 10 seconds while a storm is approaching and until it has passed through the area, yet there is ...
Newton's cannonball was a thought experiment Isaac Newton used to hypothesize that the force of gravity was universal, and it was the key force for planetary motion. It appeared in his posthumously published 1728 work De mundi systemate (also published in English as A Treatise of the System of the World ).
Knock-down test of a 109 mph (175 km/h; 49 m/s) vortex ring gun. The vortex ring gun is an experimental non-lethal weapon for crowd control that uses high-energy vortex rings of gas to knock down people or spray them with marking ink or other chemicals.
Newton's Cannon (1998) is a science fantasy novel by American writer Gregory Keyes, [1] [2] the first book in his The Age of Unreason series. The protagonist for the novel is Benjamin Franklin; other key characters to the novel are James Franklin – Ben's brother, John Collins – Ben's friend, as well as Adrienne and King Louis XIV – the Sun King.
The .35 Newton was a rimless centerfire cartridge introduced in 1915, two years after the .30 Newton, and the cartridges were produced by the Western Cartridge Company until 1936. [2] It is based on the .30 Newton case, necked up to .358 caliber.
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On election day, 6 August 1835, Whig candidate Newton Cannon won the election by a margin of 8,682 votes against his foremost opponent Democratic candidate and incumbent Governor William Carroll, thereby gaining Whig control over the office of Governor. Cannon was sworn in as the 8th Governor of Tennessee on 12 October 1835. [2]
The Gunfight at Hide Park, or the Newton Massacre, was the name given to an Old West gunfight that occurred on August 19, 1871, in Newton, Kansas, United States.While well publicized at the time, the shootout has received little historical attention despite resulting in a higher body count than the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight of 1881.