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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...
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    conceived in the early 1910s by Bradley A. Fiske, an officer in the United States Navy. A patent for this was awarded in 1912. Fiske worked out the mechanics...
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    his third operations aide, Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske his de facto principal advisor on 10 February 1913. Fiske retained his post under Meyer's successor...
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    USS Fiske (DD/DDR-842) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske (1854–1942)...
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  • USA Amos Kidder Fiske (1842–1921), American journalist Billy Fiske (1911–1940), American athlete and fighter pilot Bradley A. Fiske (1854–1942), American...
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    conceived in the early 1910s by Bradley A. Fiske, an officer in the United States Navy. Awarded a patent in 1912, Fiske worked out the mechanics of carrying...
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  • Fiske, in honor of Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske. The first USS Fiske (DE-143), was an Edsall-class destroyer escort, launched in 1943 and sunk by a U-boat...
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    Fiske (DE-143) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske,...
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  • wrote the charter of government for the Philippines. Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske was at the vanguard of new technology in naval guns and gunnery, thanks...
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  • Pulse-Doppler radar Range ambiguity resolution Cosmic distance ladder Bradley A. Fiske Dazzle camouflage Depression range finder Fire-control system Range-finder...
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    performance proved inadequate. Admiral Bradley A. Fiske of the United States Navy took out a patent in 1912 for a torpedo carrying aircraft entitled "Method...
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    that naval aviation found a permanent home in Pensacola, Florida. On February 11, 1913, he was succeeded by Bradley A. Fiske as Aide for Operations, and...
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    William S. Benson (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Encyclopedia Americana with a Wikisource reference)
    and became the Navy's first CNO, functionally replacing Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, the last aide for naval operations. Benson was heavily involved in...
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    1858. Page 344. (As Alice B. Haven) Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Haven, Alice Bradley" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. Vol...
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  • a few other shore stations. In 1842 there were seven Navy yards arrayed along the eastern seaboard of the United States. Captain Lewis Warrington, a line...
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    Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus. The First Division, under Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, consisted of USS Florida (BB-30) (flag), USS Delaware (BB-28), and...
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    type of analog computer. The hand held stadimeter was developed by Bradley Allen Fiske (1854–1942), an officer in the United States Navy. It was designed...
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  • of Japanese Sea Power is a 1936 non-fiction book by Edwin A. Falk, published by Longmans, Green and Co. Bradley A. Fiske, a former rear admiral of the...
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    The Civil Engineer Corps (CEC) is a staff corps of the United States Navy. CEC officers are professional engineers and architects, acquisitions specialists...
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  • incorporator of Harper & Brothers when the firm became a corporation in 1896. Harper is remembered as a passenger on the RMS Titanic when it sank on April...
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    Camille Pelletan (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske wrote of Pelletan in his autobiography From Midshipman to Rear Admiral, edited in 1919, that: Instead of being a friend of...
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  • Perry Belmont, USV – son of financier August Belmont Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, USN Rear Admiral William M. Folger, USN Captain Alfred Brooks Fry...
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    Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt and Admiral Bradley A. Fiske appeared before Congress concerning the deplorable condition of the...
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  • Coquimbo, Chile, a fire broke out at a hotel in the city. Gowan was among a group of U.S. sailors, led by Captain Bradley A. Fiske, who went ashore and...
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    Coquimbo, Chile, a fire broke out at a hotel in the city. Wheeler was among a group of U.S. sailors, led by Captain Bradley A. Fiske, who went ashore...
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    Harlan Fiske Stone (October 11, 1872 – April 22, 1946) was an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...
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    it was borne from the captain’s cabin to a raised platform on the main deck, where Captain [Bradley A.] Fiske, in his speech of acceptance, referred in...
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  • operations, inspections, personnel, and matériel. Secretary Meyer appointed Bradley A. Fiske as Aide for Operations and William Fullam as Aide for Inspections,...
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    renamed Admiral Fiske, to conform with the Admiral Line's naming convention. Her new name honored U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Bradley Allen Fiske. The reconditioned...
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    reorganized their endowed awards under one umbrella, The Benjamin Franklin Awards. A total of 268 Elliott Cresson Medals were given out during the award's lifetime...
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