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title: Naval Gunnery Fire Control in WWI
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2016/program/proposals/119
beginning: '2016-11-11T10:45:00.000-08:00'
end: '2016-11-11T11:45:00.000-08:00'
presenters:
- name: Mairi Dulaney
  affiliation: The Dreadnought Project
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/314
  gravatar_id: f4912ddbdeaedf01172aa9d1210a2b41
  biography: Mairi is a programmer by day and works on the steamship Virginia V by,
    well, also day.  She is the ship's electrician as well as a designated engineer
    (assistant to the chief engineer).  She's pretty handy with an oil can.
---

Several decades prior to the use of electronic digital computers, the fire control problem was computed on mechanical computing devices.  Analog data was transmitted through tightly integrated networks, often using cables with many conductors.  This talk will survey these technologies and describe their use.
