Coming_the Radio that Was Shot from a Gun
The tiny elements used in a great war invention are now ready to go to work in civilian transceivers.
By Harland Manchester
CARRYING a complete broadcasting station in the palm of his hand, a radio engineer walked out of his laboratory at the Bureau of Standards in Washington the other day, talking as he went down the stairs and out of the building. His voice came to us from a loudspeaker in the room he had left, as clearly as if he were still there. His transmitter, containing microphone, tubes, circuits, batteries, and aerial, was enclosed in a plastic box about the size of a pack of cigarettes.
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THE STORY of RADAR
The Army has lifted the veil of secrecy from its miraculous “seeing eye.”
ONLY at rare intervals during the war have we heard the word, radar, mentioned and then only in a hushed tone. We have known for quite a while, however, that our military has possessed a mysterious device which can reach out and “see” through clouds, fog and darkness, and that this same instrument has been a factor in Allied victories.
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Rocket’s Flight Kept In Sight
Gun-mounted camera eye keeps movie record of V-2 missile as it speeds into space at 3,500 miles an hour.
By Martin Mann
POPEYE is a seeing machine. Popeye can see things yon can’t see. His big glass eye can follow a V-2 zooming 3,500 m.p.h, and tell you just what it does at the 100-mile peak of its flight. But even Popeye is no match for enemy guided missiles—he could not spot an attacking rocket soon enough to sound the alarm.
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Umm, no. Actually they don’t blend at all. What they really need is some of this amazing British camouflage.
Soldiers in Camouflage Suits Blend with Trees or Snow
Camouflage uniforms developed by United States army engineers blend snipers into trees, shrubbery or snow, making detection by the enemy difficult. Believed to offer greater concealment than designs used by European armies, some of the suits are worn like long coats and others like regular uniforms.
Who needs a flight simulator when you’ve got one of these? Wait. Is that a roomba prototype on the left?
Torpedo Attack With these toylike devices the Navy trains its torpedo bomber pilots to hit targets. The cockpit on wheels, the mobile mount for the model carrier and the cart on which the tiny torpedo rides are all driven by electric motors at speeds exactly proportional to their size and the size of the floor. The pilot on the trainer fires the torpedo; the carrier is controlled separately (note operator’s hand at left).
ATOM-BOMBER Carries 3 Jet Fighters
Meet the B-36. Its wing span is twice the distance of the Wright Brothers’ first flight at Kittyhawk. It’s 3 times as lethal as the B-29 and can hop to any spot on earth.
THE U. S. Air Force has a “Sunday punch” ready to slug any enemy who tries to start World War III with another Pearl Harbor.
It’s a sleek super-dreadnaught of the skies, the Consolidated Vultee B-36 long range bomber—and it’s ready today to exploit to the fullest the awesome power of the atomic bomb. Carrying its own fighter protection in its belly, it will serve, in the event of war, as the “throwing arm” for the most destructive force in history.
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That certainly is a big bomb. Exactly what would you use to carry that? Especially in 1950.
Right, man is dwarfed beside Earthquake bomb which is 27 ft. high, weighs 42,000 pounds and could level many city blocks
According to this article Britain had a specially designed tank for “fighting savages”.
New Giant Tanks…PEACEMAKERS OR WAR BRUTES
Fast, Powerful Land Battleships May Speed Up the Next War by Preventing Trench Stalemates, or Even Make War an Impossibility
By Thomas M.Johnson
MARS has put on overalls. In carefully guarded machine shops, laboratories, and foundries all over the civilized world, the war god is tinkering with strange new machines, grimly determined to solve the mystery of that “next war” which the world dreads, but in preparation for which it spent last year nearly ten billion dollars.
The solution of that mystery, in the opinion of many experts, may end the world’s dread by making an end of war itself. Is it too much to hope that invention, which in the past has merely served to multiply the instruments of death, may once more change history—this time in the role of a peacemaker? The answer may lie in the latest and most terrible of the descendants of the war chariot, the land battleship.
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Machine GUNNER SITS SUSPENDED Under Plane
PILOTS of combat planes in the World war were acutely conscious of the fact that their ships had a “blind spot” in which they were peculiarly vulnerable to attack by the enemy. This spot included the underpart of the tail and rear section of the fuselage, which could not be defended by machine gun fire from the cockpit for the reason that the gunner would have to fire through his own plane.
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