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Bell Telephone Laboratories - Inertial Navigation September 1960 Electronics World
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September 1960 Electronics World
Table of Contents
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles
from
Electronics World, published May 1959
- December 1971. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.
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Until seeing this Bell
Telephone Laboratories promotion in a 1960 issue of Electronics World
magazine, I never considered that programming an autonomous missile for long
distances and long flight times in the days before GPS required compensation for
the Earth's rotation. Also, even though an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
would spend a relatively small amount of time in the atmosphere during boost and
reentry / terminal phases, wind effects would also need to be factored in to the
onboard inertial guidance system's navigation program. Bell Labs was evidently
tasked to design a system which could launch from the U.S. and fly to a target
6,000 miles away, and hit a designated spot closely enough to do the intended
damage. According to the online
great circle
distance calculator, the trajectory from Lincoln, Nebraska, to Moscow,
Russia (USSR in 1960)
is 5,258 miles, so it is reasonable to assume the chore had similar start / stop
locations in mind.
Bell Telephone Laboratories Ad
Assignment:
Hit a Target 6000 Miles Away
Can you guide a 110-ton Air Force Titan missile far up into the sky, to bring
its nuclear warhead down with pinpoint accuracy on a target one-fourth the way around
the globe - a target you not only can't see but which continually moves with the
spinning earth?
This was the problem in missile guidance the Air Force presented to Bell Telephone
Laboratories and its manufacturing partner, Western Electric. The answer was the
development of a command guidance system which steers the Titan with high accuracy.
Unlike self-contained systems which demand complex guidance equipment in the
missile itself, Bell Laboratories' Command Guidance System keeps its master control
equipment on the ground where it can be used over and over again. Thus a minimum
of equipment is carried in the missile, and the ground station has full control
of the missile during its guided flight. Techniques drawn from the communications
art render the system immune to radio jamming.
Bell Laboratories scientists and engineers designed the transmission and switching
systems for the world's most versatile telephone network, developed much of our
nation's radar, and pioneered in missile systems. From their vast storehouse of
knowledge and experience comes the guidance system for the Titan.
Bell Telephone Laboratories
World Center of Communications Research and Development
Bell Telephone
Laboratories Infomercials |
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Key to a Crystal Gateway
- June 1949 Popular Science
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Bell Telephone Laboratories - Time Domain Reflectometry - December 1948 Popular
Science
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The Future Holds Great Promise - August 1949 Popular Science
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Waveguide: 7/47 Popular Mechanics
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Wire Wrapping - 10/1953 Popular Science
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X-Rays, 4/60 Radio-electronics
- The Battle of
the Atoms, 4/1948 Radio News
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The Transistor, 6/1952 Radio-Electronics
- 90-Mile Laboratory
for Telephone and Television, 6/1945 Radio News
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Wire-Wrap, 10/53 Radio-Electronics
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EDT Crystals, 10/47 Radio-Craft
- Germanium Refining,
5/54 Radio & TV News
- Crystal Timekeeping,
1/46 Radio News
- Transatlantic
Cable, 11/56 Radio & Television News
- Pipe Circuits,
11/48 Radio & Television News
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Coaxial
Electron Tube, 6/54 Radio & Television News
- Thermocompression
Wire Bonding, 3/58 Radio News
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Radio Relay Stations, 8/52 Radio & Television News
- Isolators,
6/56 Radio & Television News
- Punch
Cards, 3/55 Radio & Television News
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Over-the-Horizon
Communications, 10/55 Radio & Television News
- Memory
Devices, 2/58 Radio & TV News
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Adventure in Silicon, 5/55 Radio & Television News
- Pipes of Progress,
6/55 Radio & Television News
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Project Echo, 11/60 Electronics World
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Inertial Navigation - September 1960 Electronics World
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Testing Phones - November 1947 Popular Science
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Jacques Bernoulli, February 1960 Radio-Electronics
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Type-O Carrier System, October 1952 Radio-Electronics
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Electron Microscope, 4/1952 Radio-Electronics
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Thermistor, 11/1946 Radio-Craft
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Germanium Crystal, 1/1954 Radio-Electronics
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Lens
Antenna, 5/46 Radio-Craft
- Quality Control, 6/46
Radio News Article
- Transcontinental
Radio-Relay, 10/51 Radio & TV News
- Solar
Battery, 7/54 Radio & Television News
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Germanium Transistors, 1/54 Radio & Television News
- Cavity
Magnetron, 10/45 Radio News
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The Cableman, 10/49 Radio & Television News
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Coaxial Cable, 12/49 Radio & Television News
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Tin
Whiskers, 12/55 Radio & Television News
- Relay
Contact Inspection, 7/55 Radio & Television News
- Transistor's
10th Anniversary, 6/58 Radio & Television News
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Wire
Wrapping, 10/53 Radio & Television News
- Junction
Diode Amplifier, 11/58 Radio News
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Nobel Prize Winners, 2/57 Radio & Television News
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Diode Speeds Voices, 8/58 Popular Electronics
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Microwave Relays, 7/59 Electronics World
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