. St. Nicholas [serial]. like water large book; but in this brief description weif heated to a high temperature. Last of all, can give little more than a hint of the remark-able properties of the compound which invented. A shell was filled with maximite, but the ful-minate cap was left out, and the shell was shotat a three-inch Harveyized nickel-steel forward half of the shell penetrated theplate, and the force with which it was shotflattened the end of the shell, cracked it open,and some of the maximite could be seen whereit was forced through an opening. The shellrebounded
. St. Nicholas [serial]. like water large book; but in this brief description weif heated to a high temperature. Last of all, can give little more than a hint of the remark-able properties of the compound which invented. A shell was filled with maximite, but the ful-minate cap was left out, and the shell was shotat a three-inch Harveyized nickel-steel forward half of the shell penetrated theplate, and the force with which it was shotflattened the end of the shell, cracked it open,and some of the maximite could be seen whereit was forced through an opening. The shellrebounded from the plate about two hundredfeet, and struck in front of the gun from whichit was fired. But the maximite, lacking its ownspecial fuse, did not explode. One of the most important parts of the pro-jectile is the detonating fuse or cap — that is,the part that explodes first and which in turnexplodes the charge within the shell. Fig. 7 shows a large shell on a stand withthe screw-plug part-way out, also the detonat-. FIG. 7. SHOWING A MAXIMITE SHELL WITH THE DETONATINGFUSE PARTLY UNSCREWED FROM THE PLUG. it could be poured into the projectile in sucha way as to form a solid mass that would notshift, even on striking armor-plate. These requirements were set forth by thegovernment, and of all the compounds that havebeen tested at the proving-grounds, maximitewas the only one that came up to and exceeded
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