Warfare
Sound ranging
A method of locating enemy guns by recording the sound of firing with a line of microphones and calculating the position from the time differences. It was developed in Britain by a team including William Lawrence Bragg and became a key tool of counter-battery work.
Mentioned in
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions §4 Arras, Vimy and the Chemin des Dames§8 Cambrai: The Tanks Break Through, and Back
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble §6 Amiens: The Black Day of the German Army
- Chapter X The Machinery of War §2 Artillery: The True Killer