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Arthur Cheney Train, Books, Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Man Who Rocked The Earth, Excerpt: ...own divinely appointed hands a ribbon over the spot beneath which his heart should have been. The projectile of this diabolical invention was ninety-five centimetres in diameter, and was itself a rifled mortar, which in full flight, twenty miles from the gun and at the top of its trajectory, exploded in mid-air, hurling forward its contained projectile with an additional velocity of three thousand feet per second. This process repeated itself, the final or core bomb, weighing over three hundred pounds and filled with lyddite, reaching its mark one minute and thirty-five seconds after the firing of the gun. This crowning example of the human mind's destructive ingenuity had cost the German Government five million marks and had required three years for its construction, and by no means the least of its devilish capacities was that of automatically reloading and firing itself at the interval of every ten seconds, its muzzle rising, falling, or veering slightly from side to side with each discharge, thus causing the shells to fall at wide distances. The poisonous nature of the immense volumes of gas poured out by the mastodon when in action necessitated the withdrawal of its crew to a safe distance. But once set in motion it needed no attendant. It had been tested by a preliminary shot the day before, which had been directed to a point several miles outside the walls of Paris, the effect of which had been observed and reported by high-flying German aeroplanes equipped with wireless. Everything was ready for the holocaust. Von Heckmann and the general of artillery continued to make their way through the intrenchments and other fortifications, until at a distance of about a quarter of a mile from the redoubt where they had left the Relay Gun they arrived at a small whitewashed cottage. I have invited a few of my staff to join us, said the general to the inventor, in order that they may in years to come describe to their children and their...

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An unabridged, digitally enlarged edition of Arthur Train's 1919 thriller: Instantly the earth blew up like a cannon - up into the air, a thousand miles up. Paperback, Label: Merchant Books, Merchant Books, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2009-07-12, Studio: Merchant Books, Verkaufsrang: 3794199.

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An unabridged, digitally enlarged edition of Arthur Train's 1919 thriller: Instantly the earth blew up like a cannon - up into the air, a thousand miles up. Paperback, Label: Merchant Books, Merchant Books, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2009-07-12, Studio: Merchant Books, Verkaufsrang: 3794199.

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It was three minutes past three postmeridian in the operating room of the new Wireless Station recently installed at the United States Naval Observatory at Georgetown. Bill Hood, the afternoon operator, was sitting in his shirt sleeves with his receivers Productinformatie:Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 10x229x152 mm;Gewicht: 259,00 gram;ISBN10: 1603862293;ISBN13: 9781603862295; Engels | Paperback | 2009.

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The Man Who Rocked the Earth, Paperback, Label: Merchant Books, Merchant Books, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2009-07-12, Studio: Merchant Books.

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The Man Who Rocked the Earth, Paperback, Label: Merchant Books, Merchant Books, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2009-07-12, Studio: Merchant Books.