23 Jul
2024
23 Jul
'24
7:03 a.m.
On 2024-07-23 9:02 a.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
For the British and Commonwealth version search for "admiralty fire
control clock" or "admiralty fire control table" there seems to be a
fair bit of information about them online. My father-in-law told me
that on one ship he was on in the RCN his action station was at the wind
input on an admiralty fire control clock, this would likely have been
on the Tribal class destroyer HMCS Nookta.
Paul.
On Jul 22, 2024, at 10:30 PM, dwight via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
At the last vcf here in California a fellow, I forget the name, brought in two tables
that connected together, could generate a damped sine wave. It used mostly Manco erector
like parts. It had some really great 0 backlash torque multipliers. They had to be finely
tuned so as to have almost 0 load on the integrating disk.
WW2 fire control computers were used on US battle ships. They had to compensate for
things like coriolis effects, mass, distance and charge.
Dwight
There are Navy training films online (on YouTube, I think) describing in
some detail how those machines worked.
paul