Excerpt from Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, Vol. 24: June 1898 The introduction of the sighting telescope has practically eliminated the personal equation of the gun pointer, while the substitution of the more sensitive and easily controlled electric motors for other machines, as well as the balancing of the turrets, has made refined adjustments and pointing of heavy turrets possible. These are improvements which can be best appreciated by those who have labored amidst the groaning, lurching ...
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Excerpt from Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, Vol. 24: June 1898 The introduction of the sighting telescope has practically eliminated the personal equation of the gun pointer, while the substitution of the more sensitive and easily controlled electric motors for other machines, as well as the balancing of the turrets, has made refined adjustments and pointing of heavy turrets possible. These are improvements which can be best appreciated by those who have labored amidst the groaning, lurching complications of the Older types. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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