Word: bombsight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Theodore H. Barth, 75, co-inventor (with the late Carl L. Norden) of World War II's famed Norden bombsight, a New York-born engineer who started collaborating with the older, more inspired Norden in 1923 and in 1939 under Navy commission lifted off the drawing board and into production the compact (12-in. by 19-in.), though enormously complex, bombsight that in the final phase used only two settings, gave U.S. bombardiers their much-touted "pickle-barrel" accuracy; from a duodenal ulcer; in Wareham, Mass...
...gave Burroughs its start in St. Louis in 1888. This was William Seward Burroughs' arithmometer, an iron-and-glass adding device. For years Burroughs built purely mechanical adding machines, typewriters, cash registers and check printers. Turning to defense production during World War II, the company developed the Norden bombsight, then began dabbling in computers in 1947, with a small research lab. Burroughs has since developed automated check-reading devices, computers and a new family of moderately priced electronic "business systems" that handle accounting, inventory, payroll, production programming and record keeping for banks or businesses that do not want...
Retired General Curtis LeMay peered through his bombsight and let loose with a blockbuster. Target: the U.S. air war over North Viet Nam. "We're hitting the wrong targets," said the former Air Force Chief of Staff last week in Washington. "We're getting people killed who shouldn't be killed because of too little and too late." The U.S. attacks, LeMay remarked, "should have knocked hell out of 'em-so we must be hitting the wrong targets. We should bomb the things that really would hurt them, industry, ports, power plants. We've been...
Died. Carl Lukas Norden, 85, inventor of World War II's famed Norden bombsight, a Dutch engineer who in 1904 emigrated to the U.S., in the early 1920s developed the first successful plane-arresting gear for U.S. aircraft carriers (the Saratoga and Lexington), with partner Theodore H. Barth was commissioned by the Navy to devise a better bombsight and in 1939 finally produced a compact (12 in. by 19 in.), though enormously complex, $25,000 instrument so precise that U.S. bombardiers could, as they loved to brag, literally "hit a pickle barrel from 20,000 ft."; of pneumonia...