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PRECIS 
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TRANSLATIONS. 
REYUE D’ARTILLERIES 5 
FISKE’S TELEMETRIC AND POINTING 
INSTRUMENTS. 
BY 
G. MOOH. 
(Capitaine d' artilleries Adjoint d la Section technique de VartiUerie). 
TRANSLATED BY 
Lieut.-Colonel F. E. B. Loraine, late It. A. 
In submitting to the Committee and to the readers of the R.A.I. “ Proceedings 55 
the subjoined article by Captain Moch, I beg to state that the Commandant 
Grillot, Chef d’escadron d’artillerie, and Director of the Revue d'Artilleries has 
been beyond measure kind in lending gratis, for the purposes of this translation, 
the stereotype plates which served for the illustration of the original article. I 
beg here to tender to that distinguished officer my warmest thanks for his 
courtesy and generosity.— F.E.B.L. 
Captain Moch has borrowed his descriptions of the above instruments from 
“ The United Service Gazette,” “The Electrical Engineer” (of New York), “La 
Lumiere Electrique,” “ Engineering,” the official report of experiments carried 
out on board the United States cruiser “ Baltimore,” and finally and principally 
from personal communications with the inventor, Captain Fiske, United States 
Navy. The first of the instruments in point of date were two range-finders, or, 
as the writer prefers to call them, telemeters, for use on board ship, but . which 
are equally adapted for coast defence or siege work. Then Captain Fiske pro¬ 
duced a position-finder, which gave the distance from the battery to the object, 
and the position of the latter on a chart. Finally, by developing his system, he 
arrived at laying electrically, from the centre point of observation, guns which 
were firing at objects unseen from their emplacements. Captain Fiske’s inven- 
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