United States Military Academy West Point - Howitzer Yearbook (West Point, NY)

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- O -,O fx 5, Illlllllll T7 , if . Lv 12 l llII11i Wil llll M fe Q-f X K Q 'r ix if X fx er -.:,.!q A Illlllui ll ' N X W' ' I X' alll tg X O. PROFESSOR LIEUTENANT-COLONEL VVILLIAVI B. GORDON Cadet U. S. M. A., 1873-I877- appointed from Pennsylvania' graduated 6 in a class of 76' Second Lieutenant 4th Artillery I877' First lieutenant Ordnance Department ISSI' Captain. ISQI' Inventor Of U. S. 12-inch Mortar Carriage Model 1896' Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy U. S. M. A. 1901. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CAPTAIN PALMER E. PIERCE, I3tlI Infantry, Class 'gig graduated 42 in a class Of 65. INSTRUCTORS CAPTAIN JOHN B. CHRISTIAN, Oth Cavalry, Class '96g graduated I3 in a class of 73. FIRST LIEUTENANT CHARLES M. WESSON, Sth Cavalry, Class 'oog graduated 21 in a class of 54. FIRST LIEUTENANT WILLIAM S. BROWNING, Artillery Corps, Class 'Org graduated I3 in a class of 74. SECOND LIEUTENANT ADAM F. CASAD, Artillery Corps, Class ,025 graduated I2 in a class of 54. SECOND LIEUTENANT WILLIAM F. MORRISON, Artillery Corps, Class ,O2Q graduated 21 in a class of 54. V Z2

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DEPARTMENT OF ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY DIDNT USE WOOL SOAP. ' FAUNTLEY Cdescribing shrinkageb-To shrink the jacket on the tube. the jacket is lirst carefully heated to swell it, and dipped in a tank of oil or soap solution. It is then put on the tube before it has time to dry. PARTLY CORRECT. GALLOGLY-There are two methods employed in assembling the tube and jacket. namely, breech insertion and muzzle insertion. In the case of breech insertion the breech of the jacket is slipped over the muzzle of the gung or. to be more concise, the jacket is stood on end over a pit and the breech of the tube lowered into the muzzle of the jacket. The other, muzzle insertion. is accom- plished by slipping the muzzle of the jacket over the breech of the tube, this is done by standing the tube on end over a deep pit and lowering the muzzle of the tube into the breech of the jacket. -1 i -7. l'Zv' X ir' IV ll f t f ,,?fi3? 1 ' .fi- ,ff WM - ff if A METHOD OF DEDUCTION. CAPT. O'H.-That being so, we have this, then? BIG CHIEF-YCS, sir. CAPT. O'I-I.-Then this, of course, follows? BIG CHIEF-Yes, sirg yes. sir. CAPT.-So we deduce this as a final result? BIG CHIEF-YES, sir. CAPT.-Oh, not at all, Mr. Riceg that very first statement was entirely wrong. WHO COLLECTS THE PROIECTILES? Us INsTRUc'roR Cto GREENE, R. K., reciting on pressure gatigesj- Where are they put g m so as to read the maximum -LB pressure ?'f Oh, why, sir! in the base of the projectile, sir. A VERSATILE MACHINE. INSTRUCTOR-NIT. Wliite, what qualities of a metal are de- termined in a testing machine? WHITE-TCIISIIC strength, fusibility, malleability, weldability and hardness. S1 I-IANSON-Smokeless powder is advantageous because the gas evolved is transparent and the odor less offensive, and there is less corrosion in the gun. CRAFTON-Tll6 reduced length of the initial air space is the reduction in length of the air space in the chamber due to the expansion of gases on it. HPANGH-'.l:ll1CI'C are two kinds of powder grains, uni-perforated and septi-perforated. The' uni-perforated grain is one foot in length and the septi-perforated one and seven-tenths feet. IN SECOND CLASS COURSE. ' LIEUT. E.-I was looking over the vari- ll ous equations concerning the expansion ' of gas, and I think I have evolved a new one that fulfills all the conditions 'xl for the expansion of a perfect gas. I 'A wish you gentlemen would look it over X - . i' and see if it is all right. CHORUS-Oh, yes, sir! we had that 14 equation in Chemistry last year. 1 ti SFR Q

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DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE OBSERVATORY ANNEX. 4 Naw, dis ain't no telescope. Quit dat guf- farrinl, Mr. Rockwell, and stand 'tention. And X' 5 you man, over dere in de corner, I didn't bring gpg! ye up here ter play wid de dawg, Now, den, if dis PQ Mm here instrument ain't ever used, wat's it doin' here? N, etc.. etc., etc. THE HORRID THINGS! DRAIN-The first experiments for hnding the velocity of light were made by Galileo, but his instruments were so rude that he was not very successful. INSTRUCTOR-M r. Ellis, how do you determine the specific gravity of mercury? ELLIS-WYOLI place a mercurial thermometer in a bottle of mer- cury and then measure the height of the column in the tube, and that gives the specific gravity in inches, sirg and if you want it in feet. all you do is to multiply by twelve. :vs 'Xi A v rg: ll, l ff' .- , A xx I fx tl' :Ll XXV l f Q - tllf l lv 5 .r ,GF 4 ill , ' W i R: ' tl ' 1 'tl' lil . f 'N tl 2 fi Nl: -M 00 EWTMM A Couple A Moment of lnerlia A If LECTURE. You gentlemen found some difficulty, perhaps, in obtaining a clear idea of the equatorial telescope from the description in the text, so I brought you in here this morning to see if I could give you a better understanding of the instrument and its workings. This is it. This is the eye-piece and this is the object-glass. Return to your section rooms. ' WVEIGHT A MINUTE! I don't see how it is that you men get so mixed up about pounds weight and pounds mass! It is very simple. just remem- ber that a pound mass is a weight that weighs a pound, while a pound weight is a mass that Weighs the same amount on a pair of scales as a pound mass does. And a mass of a pound is the weight that a pound of any material would have if it weighed the same as a pound mass.