[ Journal of the United States Artillery.]

1897.

CONTENTS BY NUMBERS.

NO. 1.

I. DEVELOPMENT OF A PHOTO-Velocimeter.-First Lieutenant B. W.

Dunn, Ordnance Department

II. THE SYNCHRONOGRAPH.-Professo1 A. C. Crehore and First Lieu-

tenant G. O. Squier, Third Artillery

III. HISTORY OF THE SEA-COAST FORTIFICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES.

III. Narraganset Bay,-General George W. Cullum, Ea-

gineers . .

IV. THE BICYCLE AND ITS ADAPTABILITY TO MILITARY PURPOSES.-

Second Lieutenant W. C. Davis, Fifth Artillery.

I

19

51 -

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63

79

79

81

98

103

III

I. THE PROBABILITY OF HIT WHEN THE PROBABLE ERROR IN AIM IS

KNOWN.-Professor Mansfield Merriman, Professor of Civil

Engineering in Lehigh University

II. A REPLY TO THE REPORT OF A BOARD ON SEA-COAST MORTAR FIRE.

First Lieutenant J. T. Honeycutt, First Artillery . . .

III. THE THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL TRAINING OF THE LIGHT

ARTILLERY GUNNER.-First Lieutenant Charles B. Satterlee,

Third Artillery.

IV. INDIRECT FIRE.-Major General Moriz Edler von Reichold.-

Translation by Second Lieutenant J. A. Shipton, First Ar-

tillery . .

V. HISTORY OF THE SEA-COAST FORTIFICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES.

III. Narraganset Bay-General George W. Cullum, En-

gineers

VI. PROFESSIONAL NOTES.

-Organization

-Tactics.

-Artillery Material

129

142

151

170

186

205

205

207

a. Guns and Carriages.

b. Armor and Projectiles.

c. Powder and Explosives. d. Torpedoes. e. Range

I.

THE WELDON Range Finder, ITS USE AND ITS THEORY.-Second

Lieutenant Alston Hamilton, Second Artillery and First

Lieutenant H. L. Hawthorne, First Artillery .

II. INVESTIGATIONS ON THE CONE OF EXPLOSION OF SHRAPNEL

CHARGED WITH HIGH EXPLOSIVES.-Colonel Nikolaus Ritter

von Wuich.-Translation by First Lieutenant J. P. Wisser,

First Artillery .

238

247

263

277

ΠΙ.

A NEW GENERAL BALLISTIC TABLE.-F. Siacci.-Translation by

First Lieutenant F. S. Harlow, First Artillery.

295

a.

C.

328

-Fortification . .

Guns and Carriages. b. Armor and Projectiles.

Powder and Explosives.

320

-Military Geography

341

-War Ships and Torpedo Boats

344

346

V. BOOK REVIEWS

VI. INDEX TO CURRENT ARTILLERY LITERATURE

351

363