Word: sonar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Dynamics' Star II and Star III are versatile two-man submersibles that can be equipped with manipulators that operate like a hand or are fitted to become a drill, a saw, a wrench or a grapple. They are equipped with advanced electronics, TV cameras and side-looking sonar. They can remain under water for from eight to twelve hours. Designed for work on the Continental shelves, the Stars have been used for acoustical research, archaeological investigation, and pictorial surveys of underwater cables to check for signs of deterioration...
...Henry B. Bigelow, 88, U.S. pioneer in oceanography; of pneumonia; in Concord, Mass. As a Harvard professor in 1930, Bigelow founded what has become one of the nation's biggest oceanographic centers, a vast complex at Woods Hole, Mass., that has charted the Gulf Stream, explained tricks of sonar to the U.S. Navy, now maps the ocean's floor and searches out ways to tap the vast underwater food potential...
...Bats, Birds and Bionics" is a study of the application of biology to electronics and how it will figure in man's future. Film clips include shots of devices for astronauts that were copied from bats and electronic aids for the blind modeled on the dolphin's sonar system...
...R.L.S. drifted out of sight before a brisk sou'easter and lingered for 16 hours instead of disappearing from radar screens in four hours, according to schedule. Where she finally came to rest, nobody is quite sure, and the waterlogged hulk of the R.L.S. is almost "transparent" to sonar blips used to locate submarines. But it seems likely that she lies in about 3,500 ft. of water-not deep enough to activate the fuses. Because the added pressure of a vessel passing overhead might detonate her, all shipping was ordered to keep clear. But early attempts to explode...
...complex welter of mirrors, polarizing filters, lenses, an image intensifier and a two-cathode X-ray tube (see diagram), G.E.'s Stereo Fluoricon shows a patient to his physician as a green 3-D image, "like a skeleton with its organs hung inside." Other X-ray machines and sonar beams have produced similar 3-D effects, but previous processes were too cumbersome or time-consuming to be easily utilized. G.E.'s machine can do the job in a few minutes, thereby cutting the time the patient is exposed to X rays...