Sumida Jon Tetsuro Editor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 400 pages. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published by George Allen and Unwin for The Navy Records Society in 1984, here is the first hardback printing of The Pollen Papers: The Privately Circulated Printed Works of Arthur Hungerford Pollen, 1901-1916 (Volume 124, Publications of the Navy Records Society) edited by Jon Tetsuro Sumida. Blue cloth binding, gilt lettering, decoration, 400 pages plus further reading, the book is in good condition with some moderate staining/ fading to the spine and to the cloth edges and a few spots to the extreme outsides of the page edges. There is also the name of a previous owner 9the revered Oxford scholar and Hertford College fellow Tony Cockshut) written in pencil to the front free end paper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Publlished by George Allen & Unwin for the Navy Records Society, Aldershot, 1984, being volume 124 of the Society publications in this series; 8vo, 155 x 230mm; standard blue cloth titled gilt on the spine and with the roundel of the Society in gilt on the front cover; no dust wrapper called for; pp xv, 400 plus list of the publication of this series to date; frontispiece photograph of Pollent; several more technical appendixes on relevant matters such as Range Finding by Triangulation, Triangulation by Coincidence, Disc-ball-Roller Mechanism, and more; extremely slight fading of the spine but otherwise in near fine condition. . . . . . Pollen's particular contribution was the invention and development of an analogue computer, the Argo Clock. At that time the accuracy of large naval guns was extremely poor and Lord Kelvin proposed the development of such an analogue device to calculate and solve the various equations relevant to the required trajectory of fire, including matter such as the relative motion of the ships engaged and of the time to hit. Pollen also disagreed frequently with the official British approach to and publication of material about World War I. In particular he disagreed with Admiral Jellicoe, then Commander of the British Grand Fleet, Pollen taking the view that any successes in the Battle of Jutland were actually down to the approach of Admiral Beatty. Pollen worked for much of his life with the Linotype Company, duly becoming MD although at that point he had also become a Director of BSA [the Birmingham Small Arms Company].…