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WAR DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER
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MANUAL No. 6
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER
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MANUAL No. 6
VISUAL SIGNALING
SIGNAL CORPS
UNITED STATES ARMY
1910
UNITED STATES ARMY
1910
WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1910
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1910
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Document No. 366.
Office of the Chief Signal Officer.
Document No. 366.
Office of the Chief Signal Officer.
War Department,
Office of the Chief of Staff,
Washington, April 20, 1910.
Office of the Chief of Staff,
Washington, April 20, 1910.
The following Manual of Visual Signaling, prepared in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, is approved and herewith published for the information and guidance of the Regular Army and the Organized Militia of the United States, and supersedes all other pamphlets or similar instructions heretofore issued upon the subject. Officers and men of the Signal Corps will thoroughly familiarize themselves with the instructions and suggestions contained herein.
By order of the Secretary of War.
Tasker H. Bliss,
Brig. General, General Staff,
Acting Chief of Staff.
Brig. General, General Staff,
Acting Chief of Staff.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| Page. | |
| Chapter I.—Introduction | 9 |
| Chapter II.—Visual signaling equipment. | |
| The wand | 11 |
| The flag kit: | |
| The 2-foot flag kit | 12 |
| The 4-foot flag kit | 12 |
| Care of flag material | 13 |
| Powers and limitations of flag signaling | 13 |
| The heliograph: | |
| Historical | 14 |
| Description | 14 |
| Assembling | 17 |
| Adjustment | 20 |
| Operation | 21 |
| Care of apparatus | 22 |
| Powers and limitations of the heliograph | 22 |
| The signal lantern: | |
| Acetylene | 23 |
| Calcium carbide | 23 |
| Method of gas generation | 24 |
| Description | 25 |
| Operation and care | 30 |
| Powers and limitations of the signal lantern | 35 |
| Rockets and shells: | |
| Description | 35 |
| Operation | 38 |
| Employment | 40 |