Guerre

1916 · 15958 — Washington DC: GPO 1916. Revised Edition. Wraps. fair. Pocket size 4.24 inches by 5.75 inches 2 64 2 pages. Flexible fabric covers. Illustrations some with color. Tables. Name inside front cover. Red mark inside front cover. Covers worn and spotted. Pencil erasure residue on fep. War Department Document No. 500. This supersedes Signal Book United States Army 1914. This 1916 Signal Book represents the baseline that the United States Army took into the First World War. The United States Army Signal Corps USASC develops tests provides and manages communications and information systems support for the command and control of combined arms forces. It was established in 1860 the brainchild of United States Army Major Albert J. Myer and has had an important role from the American Civil War through to the current day. Over its history it had the initial responsibility for a number of functions and new technologies that are currently managed by other organizations including military intelligence weather forecasting and aviation. In addition to visual signaling including heliograph the corps supplied telephone and telegraph wire lines and cable communications fostered the use of telephones in combat employed combat photography and renewed the use of balloons. Shortly after the war the Signal Corps constructed the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System WAMCATS also known as the Alaska Communications System ACS introducing the first wireless telegraph in the Western Hemisphere. GPO paperback