Men, machines and modern times
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Read on Hacker NewsThe naval gunfire story is recounted in more detail in "Gunfire at Sea" and is available here http://cs.gmu.edu/cne/pjd/TT/Sims/Sims.pdf it makes for fascinating reading. It's a chapter from "Men, Machines, and Modern Times" by Elting Morrison http://www.amazon.com/Machines-Modern-Times-Elting-Morison/d... which also makes great reading. Elting Morrison makes the point that the modern naval gunnery was enabled by the intersection of metallurgy advances that could build longer strong gun barrels giving improved range, improved optics so that you could see and range find what you were aiming at since it was a mile or more away, an elevating gear to compensate for the rolling motion of the deck. Together these three inventions enabled a continuous aim firing method that saw 175x increase in the rate of effective fire in 6 years: "After twent…
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