Word: sensors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...heart of the sensor is a tiny ceramic disk that vibrates 80,000 times per second, except when damped by a liquid. As the liquids from the two tanks fall below the level of the sensors, they begin to vibrate, sending a signal to a computer". Acoustica's contract should be worth $6,000,000 to $10 million during the current year and may reach $20 million over the next three years...
...products. Instead, they go to the Small Business Administration and plead their smallness. Rod set out aggressively to cultivate younger officers in the Pentagon, to find out service needs, and in 1956, the Air Force asked Acoustica if it had any ideas for the Atlas. Rod thought that the sensor would be just the thing. To get on the master bidders' list of defense contractors for other company products, he inundated procurement officers with promotion material about Acoustica...
...successful is Acoustica's liquid-level sensor that it is now being used on nuclear submarines to detect sea water in the launching tubes of Polaris missiles and in the ground-fueling system for some liquid-fueled missiles. Rod also envisions nonmilitary use of his device, has sold an ultrasonic measuring device to Du Pont for chemical gauging, another liquid-level sensor to a utility to measure the water level in a high-temperature boiler. Says Rod: "You have to keep pushing...
...satellite. Roaring into near perfect orbit around the earth went Midas II, weighing 5,000 Ibs. with a 3,600-lb. instrument package. But Midas was more than a mere heavyweight monster. It was alive and alert, and in its nose was its reason for being: an infra-red sensor able to detect unusual sources of heat on earth or high in the atmosphere-and thus, by spotting exhaust flames, to give the U.S. warning of hostile missiles streaking toward it from distant lands...
Except for peeks at the optical display and conversation with the ground, the pilot will have little to do in his orbit around the earth. An automatic attitude sensor will operate the gas jets that keep the capsule from rolling. Then, at a signal from the ground or from the pilot himself, the jets will somersault the capsule, turn it so that its retrorockets can fire and slow its speed...