Article ID: CBB839869714

From tissue paper screens to radar screens: some episodes in the development of ballistic testing methods (2021)

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A chronological synopsis of the history of the technology used in experimental and testing work relating to artillery pieces is presented. The period covered is from the mid-seventeenth century up to the Cold War era of the mid-twentieth century. Although the focus is on the development of ballistics measurement in Britain, there are important links to related work in continental Europe. The locus for much of what is described is the Royal Artillery proof and experimental range at Shoeburyness and the key individuals and groups of men and women who worked there. There are longitudinal connections between the very earliest technologies of mechanical chronometry, with paper screens and paper-based calculations, and the later technology where timings, screens and calculations had all become electronic.

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Authors & Contributors
Mørk Røstvik, Camilla
Peter Smithurst
Abbate, Janet
Crosby, Alfred W.
Gluchoff, Alan
Hicks, Marie
Journals
Arms and Armour Society Journal
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Technology's Stories
Contemporary European History
Historia Mathematica
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
MIT Press
Crampton-Moorhouse Publishing
Concepts
Artillery
Women and technology
Military technology
Ballistics
Ordnance
Science and war; science and the military
People
Galilei, Galileo
Hill, Archibald Vivian
Mersenne, Marin
Moulton, Forest Ray
Edward IV
Hilda M. Lyon
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
15th century
16th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Ottoman Empire
Austria
China
Egypt
Institutions
Thomas Firth
Royal Arsenal Woolwich
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