Word: detector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week a court of inquiry under Rear Admiral Lamar R. Leahy, retired, sat down to try to fix the blame. Did the Lafayette's elaborate fire-detector system operate? What had happened to her fire-fighting equipment? Was a fire patrol on watch? Why allow men to operate acetylene torches so close to inflammable kapok...
...improvements on supersensitive hydrophones, according to boasts of the Nazi press, is protection against Britain's deadly, effective submarine detector, the "ASDIC,"* allegedly so potent that it can spot a submerged submarine at rest with engines silent...
...great help was a remarkable new foreign-body detector which Dr. Moorhead had with him. It was invented by Samuel Berman, a research engineer in the New York City Transit Department. The cigar-sized instrument works on the principle of a radio tube; when held over a wounded man a long, pencil-like apparatus shows on a recording dial the presence and exact location of a metallic substance in the body. Dr. Moorhead's detector is the only one that has been made; it is still in Honolulu. Said he: "It proved invaluable for saving precious time...
Into the U.S. production mill last week went a new and highly secret submarine detector. In the considered opinion of naval authorities, the detector will spell the doom of Nazi submarines. Said one usually conservative officer: "After we get this one installed, no German submarine which leaves its base will ever return...
...fall of France had another important effect. The Germans seized certain French vessels which had been equipped with secret British anti-submarine devices, notably the supersonic detector called ASDIC. A study of this gear enabled the Germans to develop new tactics (TIME, March...