In your opinions would have been technicallypossible in 1890s send a little satellite (a simple bullet) in orbit with a gun Jules Verne's From the Earth to the moon" style? http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/mwade/lvfam/gunnched.htm
Post-carrying suborbital rockets were a mainstay of future predictions well into the 1950s. Presumably for freight rather than just letters...There was a steampunk website sometime ago where Britain had two giant cannons that fired mail bearing shells from Britain to India and India to Britain. I also believe that Steve Jackson Games' Pyramid Magazine had an article about a Victorian Space Cannon. I'll try finding it.
The Earth had a satellite in the 1890s. It was called the moon.
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The Paris Gun shot into the upper stratosphere. I don't think that more height wouldn't have been possible. I would question whether actual orbit could be achieved.
Perhaps. Question to ask is what condition the contents would be in once they got all the way up there?Two words: Project Babylon
If Gerald Bull's Babylon Gun had actually been built and fired it would have been able to place a trashcan-sized satillite in orbit.
Post-carrying suborbital rockets were a mainstay of future predictions well into the 1950s. Presumably for freight rather than just letters...
An escape volocity of 25k mph will cause the satellite to escape Earth's gravity altogether, so therefore you only need a speed of about 17K mph to put it in orbit around the Earth.
Well, an artificial satellite would require an escape velocity of 25000mph (what, about 40000kph?), so you get a gun like that and there you go. However, I believe that any gun of that time (or now, for that matter...) would have been powerful enough to hit that speed.
So, if anyone can prove that we could get something to that speed, then go for it.