HUMAN CANNON BALL
JXVENTGK SHOT IUOYUS.
A human cannon ball fired from a mortar in Turin. Italy, recently readied a not 100yds distant before .‘{oo spectators. Ugo Zucchini, one of the inventors, was the cannon ball. H« dressed in a leather suit and stood in a metal cylinder which readied above his knees. When Zacchini was placed in the mortar a powerful_ spring was released bv electricity, which sent him Hying through the air in a trajectory KWit high. He fell heavily in_ the middle ot the net, rebounded again and again, and a few minutes later stood bowing his acknowledgments of tumultuous applause.
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Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 6
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104HUMAN CANNON BALL Evening Star, Issue 19659, 12 September 1927, Page 6
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