Word: infra
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aircraft and off the ground to determine an approaching aircraft's course, tells the pilot what evasive action to take. The Sperry Rand Corp. is developing a system that uses high-frequency radio-wave techniques to detect the proximity of another aircraft; Motorola, Inc. is working on an infra-red detection device that picks up the red running lights on other planes, warns the pilot of their nearness...
...primary mission was another step in the perfection of two space-age military reconnaissance techniques: the Samos system for camera detection of such ground-level activity as troop movements, and the Midas early missile-warning system, which is said to detect rocket firings anywhere on earth by means of infra-red sensors...
Tiros stands for Television and Infra-Red Observation Satellite, but in Tiros I the infra-red instruments were omitted...
Tiros II has five detectors that measure different kinds of infra-red radiation coming up from the earth. They are working splendidly, and their reports will give new information about the earth's albedo (reflectivity) and about the temperature and humidity of the upper layers of the atmosphere. This sort of data is precious to meteorologists...
...England. His family was not well off, and Snow made his way by his brains. He studied at University College in Leicester, working in chemistry and graduating with First Class Honors. His work was brilliant and soon took him on to Cambridge where he continued his research in infra-red spectroscopy and was elected in 1930 a Fellow of Christ's College. At this time, while publishing scientific papers in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, he began his career as a novelist. Snow says that he had known since eighteen that he wanted eventually to be a writer...