Word: navale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Airman Crommelin knew what he was risking: "I'm finished," he declared. "This means my naval career. But I hope this will blow the whole thing open. Up to now, I've felt like an accessory to a crime. I can't stand it any longer...
Crommelin got some hearty support. Five-star Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, after lunching with Crommelin in his Washington home, declared: "He deserves the help and respect of all naval officers." In the Pentagon, there was stunned silence, then a rustle of conferring Navy brass. Hastily, Crommelin was yanked from his job with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but was plopped into a better billet: director of naval-aviation personnel. It was a rear admiral...
...numbers and commands, the machine can solve in a flash a complicated equation involving thousands of numbers and thousands of operations. It can do its trick tirelessly, over & over again, varying one or more of the factors in the equation. It prints the result (e.g. the range of a naval shell at different gun elevations) in the form of a neat table, as fast as electric typewriters can rattle the figures out. To do a comparable job by hand would take an army of trained mathematicians...
...numbers and commands, the machine can solve in a flash a complicated equation involving thousands of numbers and thousands of operations. It can do its trick tirelessly, over & over again, varying one or more of the factors in the equation. It prints the result (e.g. the range of a naval shell at different gun elevations) in the form of a neat table, as fast as electric typewriters can rattle the figures out. To do a comparable job by hand would take an army of trained mathematicians...
Mark III, which was begun in May, 1946, has been built for the Bureau of the Ordnance of the U. S. Navy to be used at the Naval Proving Ground Command at Dahlgren, Virginia. It is anticipated that testing operations will have been completed by the first of the year and the machine will go to the Navy at that time...