Author : Albert James Myer
Release : 2013-09
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Book Synopsis A Manual of Signals; for the Use of Signal Officers in the Field, and for Military and Naval Students, Military Schools, Etc by : Albert James Myer

Download or read book A Manual of Signals; for the Use of Signal Officers in the Field, and for Military and Naval Students, Military Schools, Etc written by Albert James Myer. This book was released on 2013-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...Very great quickness in the bringing of objects within the field of view can be soon acquired. The eye becomes educated to a remarkable keenness of vision by continued praotice. When observations are made with the telescope, or when messages ar.e being received by it by signals, nothing must be taken for granted, and nothing considered as Been, until it has been positively in view, and so clearly as not to admit of doubt. Never presume to anticipate what signals will follow from those already made. A signal must never be considered or announced as read until it has been actually seen. Carefully watch the communicating station until the last signals are made, and be very certain, before ceasing to watch, that the signal for the eud of a message has been distinctly given. The officers at each signal-station must take care that a lookout, through the glass, is kept at each station so constantly that no signal can be shown, at any time, at the communicating station, for more than two minutes without receiving an answer. For this reason, when not at the glass himself, he will cause his men, or any one on duty at the station, to keep a regular "glass-watch," assigning the men by turns, and fixing particular hours for each, that responsibility for neglect may be easily traced. These details will relieve each other every two or four hours, day and night. The watchman on duty must be seated at the glass; and before assuming his station must, with the aid of the soldier last on duty, make certain that he knows the exact position of the observed station, and that it is plainly in the field of the glass. This precaution is particularly necessary at night, when the least movement of the glass may have thrown the station out of view. All...