Elliott's Bearing Transmitter

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Elliott's Bearing Transmitter.[1]

Elliott's Bearing Transmitter was an optical device which could transmit its relative bearing to a remote receiver.

Design

A hand-wheel would cause the binocular carrier to train as it worked a transmitter to a receiver in the T.S.. A trigger on the hand-wheel would work a light or buzzer at the receiver.[2]

In some ways, its function was like the transmitter of an Evershed Bearing Indicator, but it was on the step-by-step principle and presumably more accurate in its resolution.

History and Deployment

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Manual of Gunnery (Volume III) for His Majesty's Fleet, 1920. Plate 59.
  2. Manual of Gunnery (Volume III) for His Majesty's Fleet, 1920. pp. 38-9.

Bibliography

  • Admiralty, Gunnery Branch (1920). Manual of Gunnery (Volume III) for His Majesty's Fleet, 1920. (G. 13018/10) Copy No. 2 is Ja. 013 at Admiralty Library.