James Monroe Ingalls
James Monroe Ingalls (born January 25, 1837 in Sutton , Vermont , † May 1, 1927 in Providence , Rhode Island ) was an American officer and ballistician .
Ingalls grew up as the youngest of nine siblings in Clinton , Massachusetts . After graduating from school in 1856, he moved with his parents to Madison , Wisconsin . From 1860 he was a math teacher at Evansville Seminary in Wisconsin. In 1864/65 he took part in the civil war as an infantry sergeant and finally a lieutenant (first lieutenant) . He stayed in the Army after the war and served in various posts in the southern states ( Tennessee , Georgia , Alabama ). In 1871 he switched from infantry to artillery, attended the artillery school at Fort Monroe in Virginia (graduated in 1872) and was 1877/78 professor of military science, tactics and mathematics at West Virginia University . In 1880 he became an artillery captain and commanded a battery on Governors Island in New York Harbor . In 1882 he held the same position at Fort Monroe, but at the same time reorganized ballistics lessons at the Artillery School in Fort Monroe, where he became First Instructor in 1882, which he remained until the school was closed in the Spanish-American War in 1898. Before and after, he also gave lessons in other subjects such as electrical engineering for torpedoes and signaling. In 1897 he became a major and in 1900 a lieutenant colonel. In 1901 he retired, but was promoted to colonel in 1904.
He was married twice: in his first marriage from 1860 he had two children (his wife and son died in 1875 of typhus in Fort Barrancas , Florida , where Ingalls was stationed), and in his second marriage from 1877 he had a daughter.
Ingall's ballistic panels were in use in the United States for many decades.
Fonts
- Exterior Ballistics, New York, Van Nostrand, 1886 , first 1883
- Ballistic Machines, 1885
- Handbook of Problems in Exterior Ballistics, 1890, 1901
- Ballistic Tables, 1891, 1900, revised edition United States Government Printing Office 1918
- Interior Ballistics , 1894, 3rd edition John Wiley, New York (and Chapman, London) 1912
- Ballistics for the Instruction of Artillery Gunners, 1893
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| SURNAME | Ingalls, James Monroe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American officer and ballistician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sutton , Vermont |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1927 |
| Place of death | Providence , Rhode Island |