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Berdan's Range-Finder for Artillery and Infantry

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 19, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 4.

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Berdan's Range-Finder for Artillery and Infantry

The Berlin correspondent of the London Times states that General Berdan, of the United States, has invented an instrument which will greatly improve the art of killing. He calls his invention a “range-finder.” It consists of a telescope and other instruments, all of which can be carried on a dog-cart, and which enable the engineers to measure with perfect accuracy up to 2,000 metres, or 1,500 yards. The time needed to ascertain distances, is only two minutes, and the General believes that his invention will double the accuracy of artillery fire, and quadruple that of infantry.