U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance in World War IIBureau of Ordnance, Department of the Navy, 1953 - 539 páginas |
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U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance in World War II United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance,Buford Rowland Visualização integral - 1953 |
U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance in World War II United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance,Buford Rowland Visualização integral - 1953 |
U. S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance in World War II United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance Visualização integral - 1953 |
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Página 155 - At approximately the same time the Earl of Saint Vincent said of an early submarine enthusiast, He ... "was the greatest fool that ever existed to encourage a mode of warfare which those who command the sea did not want and which, if successful, would deprive them of it.
Página 501 - At the conclusion of the hearings, Representative Wadsworth of New York made the following statement: " * * * let's take a look at what we call our post-war period. Let us estimate some of the elements which will be influential in swaying the judgment, rightly or wrongly, of the people and the Congress of that day. When this war is over it may be that we shall have run up a national debt approaching $300,000,000,000. * « * Already we visualize other financial obligations or commitments. » « *...
Página 407 - The report (33) urged also that "possibly an arrangement could be worked out whereby destroyers located on a line a number of miles apart could be immediately aware of the passage of an enemy vessel between any two destroyers of the line, irrespective of fog, darkness or smoke screen.
Página 155 - Others that they were filled with inveterate combustibles, which would set the Delaware in flames, and consume all the shipping. Others deemed them magic machines which would mount the wharves and roll all flaming into the city ! Great were the exertions of officers and men, and incessant were the firings — so that not a chip or stick escaped their vigilance!
Página 221 - This success at the budget table is a result of the continued commitment to quality of life by the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Página 501 - Navy; the 20-millimeter aircraft gun program, managed in its entirety for both services by the Army; the rocket propellant program, a vast and relatively new field in which the Army is serving the requirements of both services. But I would here sound a note of caution that because of these examples of successful procurement by one service of the needs of both, it does not follow that one service, or even a combination of the two, could efficiently meet all the problems of both. The fields of naval...
Página 60 - The entire island looked as if it had been picked up to 20,000 feet and then dropped. The ground was so torn up that it made even movement by foot difficult. It was impossible to tell where the sea wall had stood. All beach defenses were completely destroyed. Practically every defense installation above ground had been hit by gunfire, due to the ships closing the range...
Página 39 - Government contracts or for any other operations, than — "(1) If the Commissioner determines that such facilities were used solely in the performance of the particular contract or subcontract, their entire and reasonable cost, less salvage value, will be generally accepted as part of the cost of performing the particular contract or subcontract...
Página 155 - ... were rent to fibres. In fact her annihilation was complete, and the effect was most extraordinary. The power, as I had calculated, passed in a right line through her body, that being the line of least resistance, and carried all before it. At the time of her going up, she did not appear to make more resistance than a bag of feathers, and went to pieces like a shattered eggshell.
Página 274 - No. 4-C-1, 15 pp. (1932). [Prepared for International Electrical Congress, Paris, July 1932.] A method and apparatus for the precise determination of the resistivity of undisturbed volumes of the Earth's crust with linear dimensions ranging from 1 to 600 meters or more have been developed at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The method is an adaptation of that proposed by Wenner in 1915, based on the laws of the four-terminal conductor. With four electrodes...