Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1915 — Old-Time Warfare. [ARTICLE]

Old-Time Warfare.

Naval guns possessed no sights at the beginning of the last century. A line was scored on each gun in order to assist the aim, but, being of thicker metal near the breech thaa the muzzle, the line did not even represent the axis of the gun. Just before the battle of Copenhagen, Nelson was asked if he would interview an inventor who wished to demonstrate before him the value of a simple form of sights that would enable the gunner to hit accurately an object at a distance. “If the person comes," said the great little man, “I shall, of course, look at it, or be happy, if necessary, to use 1L But I hop* we shall be able, as üßual,“To get so dose to our enemies that our shot canned miss the object”—Answers. j.