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Elementary optics and applications to fire control instruments

United States. Army. Ordnance Dept · 1922 · Washington, Govt. Print. Off. · 58 pictures

A 1922 U.S. Army Ordnance Department training manual on elementary optics and its use in gunnery fire-control instruments, printed by the Government Printing Office in Washington for artillery officers and technicians. The plates are line ray-diagrams: labelled light paths bouncing off hatched mirror surfaces, lenses with focal-length brackets, angles of incidence and reflection, and lettered points strung across thin rules.

Optics · Optical instruments · Fire control (Gunnery) -- Optical equipment

Internet Archive · California Digital Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0