Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During World War II, Dr. Witcher did distinguished work on radar. Later he turned to a scientific study of the special needs of blind people. This work took him to Haskins Laboratories, New York City, and later to M.I.T., where he concentrated on practical gadgets. The one demonstrated last week, the only one to be completed before Dr. Witcher's death last month, is called an Audible Vision Probe. It is about as big as a short, fattish fountain pen, and a thin wire leads from it to an earphone. At one end of the probe is a small...
...light up, showing him a map of the ground below. The moving silhouette of a small airplane will tell him his position, and a luminous curve on the map will tell him how far he can fly without running out of fuel. Another luminous screen will show him a radar view of the terrain ahead, with mountains or other obstacles. These meaning-packed pictures will be the output of a lightweight computer that will do most of the necessary routine thinking. It will take crude information from many sources and turn it into a form that the pilot...
...details of how all this can be ac complished are still secret. Radar is not the whole story. The luminous screens will probably be flat cathode ray (TV) tubes, and they will get their information from all of the airplane's sensing instruments. The computer will be able to watch more instruments than the pilot's eyes and brain could possibly handle. If asked to do so by the pilot, it could come to a complex decision and act upon it in the second or so that is all future flight speeds will permit...
...Andrea Doria's radar picked up the outbound Stockholm (which he did not identify) on the radar screen about 17 miles off Dona's starboard bow. He and his officers watched her closing rapidly, although they did not plot her course. When the ships were three to four miles apart, said the captain, he ordered a 4° turn to port to leave more passing room (see cut). Calamai insisted that the ships were steaming thus starboard to starboard, whereas the Swedes insist that they were port to port. When Stockholm was two miles off and still closing...
...breakthrough by Arthur A. Collins, 47, the company's founder-president and electronics genius. Collins has captured 80% of the U.S. commercial-airlines market and 60% to 70% of the free-world foreign market in airborne electronics, i.e., equipment for navigation, instrument landing, flight direction, automatic piloting, weather radar. His equipment operates along the U.S.'s and Canada's far northern Distant Early Warning (DEW) line. His young company, which grew from a gross of $722,000 in 1940 to $123 million in fiscal 1956, has bounced radio beams off the moon, shot a high-frequency...