THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
163 
“ Lieutenant Gower is deserving of very great credit for the patience and 
attention which he has devoted to carrying out these trials, and it was grati¬ 
fying to see how interested the non-commissioned officers and gunners were 
in the experiments.” 
Experiments with Lieutenant Nolan 3 s Range-Finder. 
Aldershot, 27th and 28th October, 1869. 
Position of battery. 
Object of which range 
was taken. 
Distance 
as esti¬ 
mated by 
hi os. 1. 
a o 
| S 2 a 
9 O O 3 
p M h 
sr 
o 
Remarks. 
Bench Mark, Miles’ Hill.. 
Long Hill, Bench Mark... 
N.W.corner of Pavilion ^ 
enclosure. ) 
Wash-house chimney. 
S. W. corner of Pavilion.. 
Flag-staff, Caesar’s Camp 
Long Hill, Bench Mark... 
All Saints’ Spire. 
Engine-house chimney,") 
reservoir . .j 
Flag-staff, Caesar’s Camp 
Foresters’Public-house ) 
S. corner .j 
Flag-staff, Caesar’s Camp 
Cocked Hat Wood.... 
Miles’ Hill. 
TweselDo wn (very hilly ) 
broken ground) . ) 
Position in Long Yalley. 
yds. 
190< 
230f 
3000 
1500 
2200 
1000 
1900 
1100 
2000 
Wash-house. 
Foresters’ Public-house.. 
Staff on Twesel Down .. 
N.corner of Cockea Hat ) 
Wood.... j 
S.E. 
do. 
Staff on Caesar’s Camp 
W ash-house. 
Spire of All Saints’ Church 
Wash-house.. 
Bench Mark on Mills’ Hill 
Wagon moving at a") 
walk towards battery J 
Wagon moving at a / 
trot towards battery ) 
yds 
1200 
3''00 
000 
1300 
1200 
850 
1600 
960 
2000 
* 
3050 
6000 
1100 
308( 
1000 
701 
206( 
4090 
3000 
yds 
250h 
260i 
2945 
1165 
2363 
1328 
1824 
1172 
168( 
200C 
2000 
3655 
1101 
4000 
900 
600 
2050 
4080 
2100 
3U5 
3-20 
2-45 
2-30 
1*20 
1-15 
1-18 
yds 
2470 
2631 
2910 
1180 
2350 
1320 
1810 
1-25 1160 
1155 
1640 
770 
2115 
3 '50 
3180 
4050 
1640 
3-0 
3- 0 
4- 30 
1- 15 
2- 45 
1-22 
1-32 
1-35 
1-30 
1- 30 
2- 40 
5-15 
2-0 
1650 
1650 
1970 
1970 
3660 
1160 
1630 
78< 
890 
2100 
4100 
3140 
4100 
1630 
780 
79 
( Deliberate maximum time 
l allowed, 5 minutes. 
Do. do. 
Do. do. 
Do. do. 
< Against time, not more than 2 
C minutes allowed. 
Do. do. 
Do. do. 
Do. 
do. 
( Deliberately, but without 
f using the tape. 
Do. but with tape. 
Do. without tape. 
Do. with tape, 
f With tape, against time, but 
f rising ground in the way. 
The delay was occasioned by one 
of the guns coming into action 
out of siqht of the object. 
f At 20 yards interval, and 
I against time. 
Do. do.* 
Do. 
Do. 
do. 
do. 
At long intervals. 
Do. deliberately. 
Do. very bad ground. 
Dc. (repetition). 
Do. vide above.* 
('The correct distances were 
subsequently ascertained by 
caretul observation of the 
points placed at the spot 
t e wagons were passing 
| at the instant the range was 
C taken. 
The guns to which the instruments had been attached were then trotted for four hours; subsequently the 
following observations were taken :— 
Long Valley. 
Wagon advancing at atrot 
1405 
1450 
45 
Measured by a chain. 
Long Hill.. 
Engine-house ... 
1315 
1320 
5 
f Deliberately, and with double 
i instrument. 
If .. 
Foresters’ Public-house 
1142 
1160 
18 
Do. do. 
ft . 
Staff on Caesar’s Camp ... 
1811 
1810 
1 
Do. do. 
n ... 
All Saints’ Spire .. 
2349 
2350 
1 
Do. do. 
ir . 
n n . 
2349 
2350 
1 
f Repeated, using owe instrument 
f only, in 3m. 30s. 
(Signed) J. R OLIVER, Brigade-Major, R.A., 
Superintending Experiments. 
N.B.- See Proceedings of the Dept, of the Director of Artillery and Stores, Vol. VIII. p. 77. 
