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Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske (June 13, 1854 - April 6, 1942) was an officer in the United States Navy who was noted as a technical innovator. During his long career, Fiske invented more than a hundred and thirty electrical and mechanical devices, with both Naval and civilian uses, and wrote extensively on technical and professional issues; The New Yorker called him "one of the notable naval inventors of all time."〔 One of the earliest to understand the revolutionary possibilities of naval aviation, he wrote a number of books of important effect in gaining a wider understanding of the modern Navy by the public. For inventing the rangefinder, he was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal of The Franklin Institute in 1891. ==Early life and career== Fiske was born in Lyons, New York on 13 June 1854 to Rev. William Allen Fiske and Susan Mathews (Bradley) Fiske. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy from the State of Ohio in 1870, graduating four years later and receiving his commission as an Ensign in July 1875. His early service years included duty as an officer on board the steam sloops-of-war and , both on the Pacific Station, and the paddle steamer in the Atlantic. He also received instruction in the then-young field of torpedo warfare. Promoted to Master in 1881 and Lieutenant in 1887, during much of that decade he had training ship duty in and , served in the South Atlantic Squadron on the steam sloop , and was twice assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance in Washington, D.C. He married Josephine Harper on February 15, 1882 in New York and they had one daughter, Caroline Harper Fiske, in 1885. Josephine was the sister of publisher Henry S. Harper. As one of the Navy's most technically astute officers, in 1886-1888 he supervised the installation of ordnance on , one of the first of the Navy's modern steel warships. In 1888-1890 he was involved in the trials of the , whose large caliber compressed-air guns were then considered a promising experiment, and was in charge of installing electric lighting in the new cruiser . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bradley A. Fiske」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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