The accompanying cut illustrates a telemeter which was exhibited at the. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference
This telemeter was one of the first that was tried in our military ports, and gave therein most satisfactory results. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference
The determination of the distance from the objective and from the corresponding back-sight as well as the observation of the altitude is carried out with the aid of the telemeter. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
It will be remembered that the object of a telemeter is to make known at any moment whatever the distance of a movable object, and that, too, by a direct reading and without any calculation. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference
To assist the range-finder in his task of sighting it is necessary that he should be provided with firing tables set out in a convenient form, which, in conjunction with the telemeter, serve to facilitate training for each successive round. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
The range to the target is apparently ascertained by those near the guns by a large telemeter, or other range finder, which is kept trained on the aeroplane, so that when the signal is made the distance to the target vertically below is at once obtained. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915] Reference
"The telemeter," explained Captain Mignot; "for obtaining the altitude of the enemy's aëroplane.". From Wordnik.com. [Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front] Reference
The outfit of Field Instruments contains compasses, transits, and levels of various approved makes; a solar transit, furnished also with stadia wires and gradienter for tachymetric work; hand-levels and clinometers for field topography; plane tables; a sextant; together with an adequate supply of leveling rods, telemeter rods, signal poles, chains, tapes, pins, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [University of Virginia Record] Reference
There was Captain Mignot, and the two imposing officers from General Foch's staff; there were smiling young French gunners; there was the telemeter, which cost, they told me, ten thousand francs, and surely deserved to have its picture taken, and there was one, not too steady, of a patch of sunny sky and a balloon-shaped white cloud, where another German shrapnel had burst overhead. From Wordnik.com. [Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front] Reference
Sensors: Dual Front telemeter ranging, Dual Surface IR line sensing. From Wordnik.com. [MAKE Magazine] Reference
"At some anti-aircfaft batteries," he explained, "they have the telemeter for that purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front] Reference
Now we telemeter all the data back to Luna City, as it comes off the instruments, but that was before the line-of-sight relays were set up. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
Funds will be used to support projects authorized by WRDA 1996 and 1999 that include installation of slurry walls on the Lower American River levee system, modification of the Sacramento River east levee in the Natomas Basin, installation of telemeter gages above Folsom Dam, strengthening of levees, installation of a closure structure at Mayhew Drain, and modification of the Natomas Cross Canal Levees. From Wordnik.com. [KCRA.com - Local News] Reference
He placed his hand on the telemeter. From Wordnik.com. [Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front] Reference
Siemens electric telemeter. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference
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