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To: wsringeorgia who wrote (43240)	12/3/2000 4:41:08 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 436258

WSR Re:- Pearly, what do your socialist relatives think of Winston Churchill? Well Winston Churchill is generally well thought of by everyone, including me. His vocabulary was second only to Shakespeares. However none of us are perfect and Churchill was no exception. His first real big mistake was of a technical matter when he was in charge of the navy before WW1. There was an English inventor who developed a new navel gun sight. It used a gyroscope to keep track of the ships movements, and solved a second order differential equation to any target solution. He spent years trying to get the British Navel Authorities to buy the sight from him. Churchill had a relative who came up with a much inferior design. Churchill's relative's design was excepted (for some reason -g-). The English inventor had to take his idea overseas. The Germans were impressed with the design and promptly bought it up. Then came WW1. The first "field test" occurred in an opening navel engagement, I forgot which one, but several of Britains capital ships got sunk in the opening minutes of the Battle. There are numerous other examples where this blunder was felt. Trying to destroy the Forts at Gallipoli (where the British capital ships were steaming in circles, yet could not get correct solutions to fire the guns) being just one. These problems and others were quietly fixed before WW2 of course -g- regards, pearly.