Navy Electronics Laboratory Historic Photographs - Continued
Official US Navy photographs
| The NEL technical library was stacked with 26,000 bound scientific books and periodicals which were available during all working hours. Subscriptions to 500 scientific and professional journals insured ready access to current developments in all major science fields around the world. File Number A443 |  |
| This Betatron provided 22-million electron volts for examination into the structures of heavy objects and metals up to 18 inches in diameter. It was the only one on the West Coast. FileNumber C148 |
| Vital to the everyday work of scientists at NEL was the handicraft of highly skilled technicians such as the machinists, toolmakers, die cutters, and pattern makers. Here is shown a portion of NEL's large and fully-equipped machine and metal shop. | |
| This is a 720:1 scale model of a U.S. Navy destroyer-type ship. A much larger model was used later in communication studies at NEL's antenna model range. File Number C1649 |
| This odd-looking device was an NEL-developed automatic weather station, which could be parachuted into remote strategic areas and would, without further attention, proceed to right itself upon landing, take weather observations, record them, and transmit the findings on predetermined frequencies. File Number B1818 | |
| Photomicrographs like this or photomacrographs too big for a desk were obtainable at NEL through use of its Bausch and Lomb research metallograph for brightfield, darkfield, and polarized light. The metallograph afforded inverted microscope magnification to 2125x of metal or material specimens. File Number B335 |
| Protrayed is a phase of some NEL eye motion studies utilizing a Dumont 250-H scope. Here a student looks into the eye-motion camera. Scope in left background projected pattern on screen directly in front of student. His reactions were then followed by the camera and tracked. File Number C245 |  |
| This was an experimental design of part of an electronics equipment. There was always plenty of soldering to be done on every project. File Number C1748 |
| An Electronics Technician (sound) cutting a master record at NEL on a professional disk recording lathe of great precision. File Number A1618 | |
This exhibit contained a number of potted objects representing NEL techniques of encapsulating subminiature electronic circuits and equipments in special resin compounds. FileNumber C1678
| A countermeasures antenna. FileNumber A233 |
| Microwave antenna towers. FileNumber E1830 |  |
| Development of this assault trainer teacher for use by naval amphibious forces involved NEL assistance. FileNumber B957 |
Metallurgical testing. FileNumber A1086
| Control head, control electronics, air traffic control sequencer. File Number 1297 |  |
 | Electronic Scientists here were working with MADDIDA (Magnetic Drum Digital Differential Analyzer), an electronic computer using the magnetic drum for storage. At NEL the MADDIDA was used for problem generation purposes. File Number E1278 |
If all the water over the coastal plane immediately south and west of Los Angeles and San Diego were to evaporate suddenly the ocean bottom there would look much like the above artist's drawing based on NEL oceanographic research. File NumberC1652
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Updated on 17 Nov 1998
