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Tests were underway to use the calculator with a system designed by {{LieutTRN}} [[B. E. Reinold]] to permit a rangefinder, gyrocompass receiver and Forbes speed indicator to automate the process further.<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912'', p. 27.</ref> | Tests were underway to use the calculator with a system designed by {{LieutTRN}} [[B. E. Reinold]] to permit a rangefinder, gyrocompass receiver and Forbes speed indicator to automate the process further.<ref>''Annual Report of the Torpedo School, 1912'', p. 27.</ref> | ||
It is not clear to me whether the [[Torpedo Control Plotting Instrument]] and/or the [[Dreyer Torpedo Control Table]] were deemed to be instances of this method. | |||
===Abolished=== | ===Abolished=== | ||
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==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
*[[Hallett Director]] | |||
*[[James Calculator]] | |||
*[[Torpedo Control Plotting Instrument]] | |||
*[[Dreyer Torpedo Control Table]] | |||
==Footnotes== | ==Footnotes== | ||
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*{{BibUKARTS1912}} | *{{BibUKARTS1912}} | ||
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*{{BibUKARTS1918}} | *{{BibUKARTS1918}} | ||
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[[Category:Torpedo Control]] | [[Category:Torpedo Control]] | ||
Revision as of 19:32, 14 April 2011
Deflection Plotting was a British concept for adjusting a torpedo director first proposed by Template:CmdrRN A. M. Yeats Brown. The "steady bearing" concept of Hallett's Director was a subcase.
A pamphlet was drawn up and issued in 1912,[1] and a combination slide rule and plotting board invented by Template:LieutGRN W. M. James[2] to facilitate its practice, permitted the required deflection to be read off rather than calculated as detailed in the pamphlet.
Tests were underway to use the calculator with a system designed by Template:LieutTRN B. E. Reinold to permit a rangefinder, gyrocompass receiver and Forbes speed indicator to automate the process further.[3]
It is not clear to me whether the Torpedo Control Plotting Instrument and/or the Dreyer Torpedo Control Table were deemed to be instances of this method.
Abolished
In mid 1919, a meeting of the Fleet Torpedo Committee decreed that "deflection plotters" should be abolished, as their results, if accurate, were stale.[4]
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