Journal of the United States Artillery, Volume 13Artillery School Press, 1900 - Artillery |
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Page 248 - YEARS' EXPERIENCE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS &c. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communications strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co.
Page 249 - ... British sent a fleet to support the authority of the Prince of Orange, and took possession of the country in his name As, however, it was evident that Holland would not be able to hold it, and that at a general peace it would be made over to England, it was ruled by British governors till the year 1802, when, at the peace of Amiens, it was again restored to Holland. In 1806, on the renewal of the war, it was again taken by the British under Sir David Baird, and has since remained in their possession,...
Page 166 - ... facility of transmitting intelligence. The mails, the. telegraph and the telephone are civilizing the world. Perfect as is the mail system of to-day, a monument to organization, yet, its swiftest messenger — steam — is so far outstripped either on land or sea by the practically instantaneous electric current, that the tendency year by year is to put more of the world's business
Page 154 - That it is for the interest of the Empire that, in case of the construction of a cable between Canada and Australasia, such cable should be extended from Australasia to the Cape of Good Hope; and that, for that purpose, arrangements should be made between the Imperial and South African Governments for a survey of the latter route.
Page 249 - ... His countrymen, however, attracted by the riches of the East, made no permanent settlement at the Cape, although they frequently touched there on the voyage to India. But the Dutch, who, on the decline of the Portuguese power, established themselves in the East, early saw the importance of the place as a station where their vessels might take in water and provisions. They did not, however...
Page 153 - ... discussion of a strategic cable route through the Marianas, the conception of Guam as primarily a cable station is not prominent in what was said preliminary to the decisions to keep the island and to lay the cable. President McKinley put the matter to Congress (February 10, 1899) in a different sequence : The Hawaiian Islands and Guam becoming United States territory, and forming convenient stopping places on the way across the sea, the necessity for speedy cable communication between the United...
Page 29 - Probability of hit when the probable error in aim is known; with a comparison of the probabilities of hit by the methods of independent and parallel fire from mortar batteries, no place, no date. 12 pp., 5 tab., » x 6, pap. no title-page. MICHAELIS, OE Applications of electricity to the development of marksmanship. 188«.