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21Mathematical discussion of rangekeeping — In naval gunnery, when long range guns became available, an enemy ship would move some distance after the shells were fired. It became necessary to figure out where the enemy ship, the target, was going to be when the shells arrived. The process… …
22Coast Artillery fire control system — A conceptual diagram of the flow of fire control data in the Coast Artillery (in 1940). The set forward point of the target was generated by using the plotting board (1). This position was then corrected for factors affecting range and azimuth… …
23Artillery — For other uses of the term, see Artillery (disambiguation). Warfare Military history Eras Prehistoric Ancient …
24Solar sail — Solar sails (also called light sails or photon sails, especially when they use light sources other than the Sun) are a proposed form of spacecraft propulsion using large membrane mirrors. Radiation pressure is about 10 5 Pa at Earth s distance… …
25Surveyor 7 — Infobox Spacecraft Name=Surveyor 7 Caption=Surveyor model on Earth Organization=NASA Major Contractors= Hughes Aircraft Mission Type=Lander Satellite of= Moon Launch= January 7, 1968 at 06:30:00 UTC Launch Vehicle= Atlas Centaur Decay=Landed on… …
26Brevity code — Contents 1 American/NATO codes 1.1 A 1.2 B 1.3 C …
27telescope — /tel euh skohp /, n., adj., v., telescoped, telescoping. n. 1. an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens… …
28Iowa class battleship — The Iowa class battleships were a class of six fast battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1939 and 1940 to escort the Fast Carrier Task Forces that would operate in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Four were completed in the early… …
29Schizopolis — Infobox Film | name = Schizopolis caption = DVD cover of the Criterion release. director = Steven Soderbergh producer = John Hardy John Re writer = Steven Soderbergh starring = Steven Soderbergh David Jensen Mike Malone music = Cliff Martinez… …
30Rangekeeper — Rangekeepers were electromechanical fire control computers used primarily during the early part of the 20th century. They were sophisticated analog computers whose development reached its zenith following World War II, specifically the Computer… …
