. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy. ^ per-mitted him to test it, but he became still more con-vinced of its worthlessness by the tests, reported. COMMANDER BRADLEY ALLEN STATES NAVY. THE ISEWYORKPUBllC LIBRARY T»t-D£ 323 against it officially, and refused to allow any moreammunition to be used to test it. The Chief of Bu-reau of Ordnance then gave orders that its test becontinued nevertheless ; and in Unalaska LieutenantFiske, in 1892, succeeded in making such an unpar-alleled record with it, that its value was demonstratedbeyond doubt. As no one
. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy. ^ per-mitted him to test it, but he became still more con-vinced of its worthlessness by the tests, reported. COMMANDER BRADLEY ALLEN STATES NAVY. THE ISEWYORKPUBllC LIBRARY T»t-D£ 323 against it officially, and refused to allow any moreammunition to be used to test it. The Chief of Bu-reau of Ordnance then gave orders that its test becontinued nevertheless ; and in Unalaska LieutenantFiske, in 1892, succeeded in making such an unpar-alleled record with it, that its value was demonstratedbeyond doubt. As no one else seemed disposed toreport on it, however, he had to make the official re-port on it himself, and the Chief of Bureau of Ord-nance accepted it, and began to consider seriously theadoption of the system in the Nav}^ In Alay, 1894,Lieutenant Fiske made a still more extraordinaryrecord with his invention, and proved so conclusivelythat it abolished the principal error in Naval gun-nery, that the Department shortly after adopted it forthe service. This invention is now in use in all theprincipal Navies of the world, as the Text Book ofOrdnance and Gunnery, used at the Uni
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