Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson backfield star, whose brilliant play as a pass intercepter placed him among the nation's leaders last fall and earned him the nickname "Radar Ken," has won his Varsity letter three years running. Used exclusively on defense in 1946 because his arm was in a cast, he started six games this season as offensive quarterback...
...Radar. Sir Edward, 55, Secretary of Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, is an outstanding authority on radio waves. He is the father of two daughters (Rosalind, 20, dances in the Anglo-Polish Ballet), a detective-story fan, likes golf, his garden and piano, and is a fairly regular churchgoer. Appleton's probings in the upper atmosphere, where he located two layers of ionized gases, resulted in the first use of reflected radio waves to measure the distance of an unseen object. Just in time for World War II, the technique developed into Britain...
Magic-eyed radar, which guides the Queen Elizabeth through North Atlantic fogs, can guide a tugboat, too. Last week the New Haven and the Pennsylvania Railroads demonstrated how tugboat radar might eliminate fog delays in New York's crowded harbor...
...loaded freight cars, the New Haven's tug Transfer 21 set out from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for Greenville on the Jersey shore. Her pilothouse windows were hung with heavy grey curtains, more opaque than any fog. This low visibility did not bother the captain. By glancing at the radar's 12-in. "scope," he could follow all harbor doings for a mile around. A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made Jersey without trouble, though only...
...tugboat radar, specially designed by the Sperry Gyroscope Co. for close-range work, shows objects 80 yards away, large objects even closer. It can "see" for 30 miles, but tugboats are seldom concerned with such distances. It costs about $12,000, may save much more on the barges that shuttle freight cars between New Jersey and the docks of Brooklyn and Manhattan. The New Haven and the Pennsylvania figure that radars on their 51 tugs may save $50-100,000 every foggy...