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Battleship Rangefinders and Geometry
- dm2 12y agoRelated: If you haven't seen this 60 year old US Navy training video on "mechanical fire control computers" it is definitely worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4
- ANTSANTS 12y agoCame here to post this.
- kawera 12y agoFascinating. Thank you very much!
- csandreasen 12y agoArs Technica also did a good write-up on that subject: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/gears-of-war-when-mechanical-analog-computers-ruled-the-waves/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/gears-...
- dylanrw 12y agoThere are some old coastal defense bunkers/stations along the SF coastline that were used for the same techniques. Except rather than a small rangefinder station each location would act as one eye in a network to provide even greater accuracy. TLDR Stereo vision FTW... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_end_station http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_end_station
- sparkman55 12y agoThe Devil's Slide Trail, a brand new park along the coast south of Pacifica (south of San Francisco), has an example of one of these emplacements. http://parks.smcgov.org/devils-slide-trail http://parks.smcgov.org/devils-slide-trail