The Pollen Papers: The Privately Circulated Printed Works of Arthur Hungerford Pollen, 1901-1916

by Arthur Joseph Hungerfo Pollen and Jon Tetsuro Sumida

Arthur Pollen (1866-1937) trained as a barrister but eventually became a successful businessman. In 1900 he became interested in the problem of aiming naval artillery after witnessing a practice firing at sea. From that time he formulated his ideas for a system of firing accurately at long range and in 1906 he persuaded the Admiralty to co-operate in the development of his proposals.

However, Pollen's ideas were not adopted as an influential...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0049421824
• ISBN13: 9780049421820
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.