A new type vacuum photo-flash, 1000 times the intensity of an ordinary flash bulb, was used to take these pictures of bullet action at the Armour Institute. Chicago. The photos show: The bullet "stopped" in flight by the ultra-rapid exposure; the bullet just striking the glass; bullet emerging in a cloud of glass powder; and finally, fragments of glass in the air.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1939, Page 6
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62A new type vacuum photo-flash, 1000 times the intensity of an ordinary flash bulb, was used to take these pictures of bullet action at the Armour Institute. Chicago. The photos show: The bullet "stopped" in flight by the ultra-rapid exposure; the bullet just striking the glass; bullet emerging in a cloud of glass powder; and finally, fragments of glass in the air. Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1939, Page 6
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