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IN an article published in NATURE last August the suggestion was made that it might be possible to utilise gunfire for accurate measurement of the time of passage of sound over long distances, and in a postscript to the article I was able to record my success in listening at Grantham for the sound of guns discharged at Shoeburyness. On that occasion the interval between the firing of the gun and the arrival of the sound at Grantham varied between 1034 and 1114 minutes.
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WHIPPLE, F. Audibility of Gunfire. Nature 119, 782 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119782a0
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