Lest They Forget

By Admiral W. V. Pratt, U. S. Navy
April 1933
Let there be understanding that wisdom and tolerance may prevail While limitation of armament runs through this paper like a thread the purpose of the article is not a technical ...

Aerology And Chemical Warfare

By Lieutenant Thomas J. Raftery, U. S. Navy
April 1933
A field where aerology has a practical application, but in which no navy aerologist has yet ventured, is chemical warfare. Nature has so many tricks and idiosyncrasies in her control ...

Gyroscopic Stabilization

April 1933
A few weeks ago the editor of the Proceedings took advantage of an opportunity to go aboard the new Italian liner Conte di Savoia. He was much impressed with ...

Professional Notes

April 1933
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Book Reviews

April 1933
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Discussions

April 1933
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Let Us Not Drop A Perpendicular

By Lieutenant Robert E. Jasperson, U. S. Navy
April 1933
The following solution of the astronomical triangle is unique in that no artificial perpendicular is employed to divide the triangle into two similar right spherical triangles. Since Lord Kelvin first ...

Two Colleges

By Lieutenant Commander Melvin F. Talbot (S. C.), U. S. Navy
April 1933
Veritas. One all-inclusive word inscribed on the shield of Harvard. And here at my second school, the Naval War College, other students, equally earnest, seek not an abstract truth, but ...
Attempted flight of Langley's full-sized palne, preparatory to launching

Shooting The Catapult

By Lieutenant (J. G.) H. B. Miller, U. S. Navy
April 1933
Catapulting aircraft is a commonplace event. Harold B. Milller traces the steps that have gone towards making it possible.

Our Chief Petty Officer Promotion System

By Lieutenant Commander J. M. Steele, U. S. Navy
April 1933
Suppose that every commander now on the active list of the Navy were told that, to be a captain, he must take an examination on a certain day; that, to ...

Petty Officers

By George Fielding Eliot
April 1933
It will, I know, be considered something of a presumption for a soldier to discuss questions of naval organization and discipline; especially so complicated a matter as the rating and ...

The Gordon Bennett Race, 1932

By Lieutenant Commander T. G. W. Settle, U. S. Navy
April 1933
The world “race” almost invariably implies time—covering some distance or doing something in a certain time. Balloon races, however, are different. They are for distance—straight line (great circle) distance between ...

The Confederate Blockade Runners

By Lieutenant Commander Paul Hendren, U. S. Navy
April 1933
The story of the running of the blockade into and out of the ports of the Confederacy during the Civil War is a highly colorful one. The history of the ...

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