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building called the Rotunda was erected for concerts, and the gardens quickly became a favourite resort of fashionable society. Balls and masquerades, exhibitions of See also:

FIREWORKS

fireworks, regattas and many other forms of amusement were provided; :'gut by the See also:

close of the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century Ranelagh was ceasing to attract the public, and in 1803 the Rotunda was closed. The buildings were removed, and the grounds became the See also:

PROPERTY

property of Chelsea Hospital. They are still included in the pleasant gardens belonging to that See also:

FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation, but no traces of the popular Ranelagh are preserved. There is, however, a fashionable See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

CLUB (connected with " clump ")

club of the same name. See See also:

Warwick Wroth, London See also:

PLEASURE (through Fr. plaisir from Lat. placere, to please; Gr. rlbovii)

Pleasure Gardens of the Eighteenth Century (London, 1896). RANGE-FINDER, TELEMETER Or POSITION-FINDER (Fr. telemetre; Ger. Distanzmesser; It.

Telemetro; Russ. Dalnomier; Span. Telemetro; in the See also:

UNITED

United States the word telemeter is sometimes applied to the stadia used in connexion with the tacheometer), an See also:

INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument, of which many varieties have been invented, for assisting the See also:

GUNNER, or MASTER GUNNER

gunner and the See also:

INFANTRY

infantry soldier in determining the distance or " range "1 to their See also:

OBJECTIVE, or OBJECT GLASS

objective. Nearly all range-finders may be described as See also:

INSTRUMENTS

instruments which automatically solve a triangle. Usually it is a right-angled triangle, the length of the See also:

BASE

base of which is known, and one of the sides is the range it is desired to find. They are, in fact, goniometers, but the See also:

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle which they measure, whether it may be at the end of the measured base, or that subtended by it, is usually expressed as a See also:

FUNCTION

function of the angle in terms of the measured base. Thus the range is recorded directly in metres or yards without calculation. It is proposed here r The word " range," from O.Fr. range, from See also:

RANGER, HENRY WARD (1858– )

ranger, to place in a See also:

ROW, JOHN (c. 1525—1580)

row or See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank (rang being a variant of rant, whence Eng. rank "), meant properly a row or See also:

LINE

line of See also:

OBJECTS

objects, as still in " See also:

mountain-range "; the secondary meanings of an See also:

AREA

area or space of ground, See also:

SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere of See also:

ACTION

action, See also:

COMPASS (Fr. corn pas, ultimately from Lat. cum, with, and passus, step)

compass, extent, distance, are derived from the verb " to range," to stretch out in a line, to extend, to move about over a given area.to describe principally the range-finding instruments in the See also:

BRITISH

British services (1) as used in the See also:

FLEET

fleet; (2) by the See also:

army in the See also:

field; (3) in See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour See also:

defence; and (4) to refer briefly to range-finders, not under these heads, of See also:

ENGLISH

English and See also:

FOREIGN

foreign See also:

DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design. 1. The See also:

NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity for a range-finder afloat caused the British See also:

ADMIRALTY, HIGH COURT OF

Admiralty in 1891 to issue an See also:

ADVERTISEMENT, or ADVERTISING (Fr. avertissement, warning, or notice)

advertisement in the See also:

PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press inviting inventors to produce an instrument which would, amongst other conditions, See also:

RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record ranges with an accuracy of within 3% at 3000 yds. The resulting competition was declared in favour of a range-finder which is the See also:

JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint invention of See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

Professor See also:

BARR

Barr of the See also:

GLASGOW

Glasgow University and Professor See also:

STROUD

Stroud of the See also:

YORKSHIRE

Yorkshire See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College. The See also:

NAVAL

naval range-finder consists of a See also:

TUBE (Lat. tuba)

tube 2 which contains two telescopes.

It is carried on a See also:

FRAME

frame by See also:

BEARINGS

bearings, in which the tube is See also:

FREE

free to revolve about its longer See also:

AXIS (Lat. for " axle ")

axis. To the frame Barrand is attached a See also:

WEIGHT

weight capable of See also:

MOVEMENT

movement within a tank. Stroud. This weight balances the range-finder and frame upon See also:

KNIFE (0. E. cuff, a word appearing in different forms in many Teutonic languages, cf. Du. knijf, Ger. Kneif, a shoe-maker's knife, Swed. knif; the ultimate origin is unknown; Skeat finds the origin in the root of " nip," formerly " knip "; Fr. canif is a

knife-edges. By means of the handle on the See also:

LEFT

left of the instrument and an See also:

ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude See also:

WORM

worm beneath it, the See also:

motion of the tube is governed, and the line of sight is directed on the objective. By partially filling the tank with See also:

WATER

water, the swinging of the weight in a seaway can be checked. The frame is supported on a See also:

PEDESTAL (Fr. piedestal, Ital. piedestallo, foot of a stall)

pedestal and can rotate in See also:

AZIMUTH (from the Arabic)

azimuth upon it (fig. I).

End of Article: RANELAGH

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