Breaking the sound barrier is nothing remotely new. No one knows when man first broke the speed off sound. In Florida and Georgia men were known for driving cattle using bull whips to goad them along. When the tail of the whip pops in mid air it is traveling faster than sound.
You can fill in the rest of the story.
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It took a long time to connect the two different ways of breaking the sound barrier. How did they know that the sound the whip made was breaking the sound barrier?
They didn't at the time I'm sure. It is certain that a hunter watched another shoot one hundred yards away in very cold weather, watch the recoil and later hear the noise. They may have put two and two together & figured that sound traveled slower in the cold but I doubt if they knew the speed of sound.
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