The Vickers Range Clock was a clockwork device used by the Royal Navy for continuously calculating the range to an enemy ship. In 1903, Percy Scott described...
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target ship. It was often used with other devices, such as a Vickers range clock, to generate range and deflection data so the gun sights of the ship could...
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4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun Admiralty Fire Control Table - retired Vickers range clock - retired British 18 inch torpedo British 21 inch torpedo British...
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QF 3.7-inch AA gun (redirect from Vickers 3.7 AA gun)
During the 1920s, Vickers developed the Vickers range clock (Predictor No 1), an electro-mechanical computer that took height and range data from an optical...
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target ship. It was often used with other devices, such as a Vickers range clock to generate range and deflection data so the gun sights of the ship could...
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transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the Transmitting Station located beneath each position on the main deck, where it was converted into range and deflection...
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transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the transmitting station located beneath each position on the main deck, where it was converted into range and deflection...
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transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the transmitting station located beneath each position on the main deck, where it was converted into range and deflection...
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transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the transmitting station located beneath each position on the main deck, where it was converted into range and deflection...
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into a Dumaresq mechanical computer and electrically transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the transmitting station located beneath each position...
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The Vickers Wellington (nicknamed the Wimpy) is a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber. It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in...
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into a Dumaresq mechanical computer and electrically transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the transmitting station located beneath each position...
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control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the Transmitting Station located beneath each spotting top where it was converted into range and deflection...
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control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. Laid down by Palmers at their dockyard in Jarrow, Stonehenge, the...
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transmitted to Vickers range clocks located in the Transmitting Station (TS) located beneath each spotting top where it was converted into range and deflection...
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device, later developed by Vickers and Scott as the Vickers range clock, that automatically kept track of the changing range to an enemy ship. During a...
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control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. One of nine...
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control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. Laid down on September 1917 during the First World War by Swan Hunter...
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control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. One of nine...
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control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. Laid down on 10 September 1917 during the First World War by Swan...
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control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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a training-only director, single Dumaresq analog computer and a Vickers range clock. Laid down on 25 March 1918 shortly before the end of the First World...
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torpedo to be carried. Fire control included a single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. The ship had a complement of 90 officers and ratings. Laid down...
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control included a training-only director, single Dumaresq and a Vickers range clock. Laid down during the First World War by Palmers at their dockyard...
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