On 2024-07-23 9:02 a.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Jul 22, 2024, at 10:30 PM, dwight via cctalk <cctalk@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
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.
