50" lens testing using a rebuilt radar dish mount and with two operators where one followed the azimuth movement and the other the elevation. Designed to test better tracking of aircraft and missile interception

Title

50" lens testing using a rebuilt radar dish mount and with two operators where one followed the azimuth movement and the other the elevation. Designed to test better tracking of aircraft and missile interception

Description

Photograph understood to be associated with Ray Barnes and the University of Tasmania physics department during the early 1950s

Date

1950 - 1955

Rights

From the Eric Waterworth Collection. The University of Tasmania does not hold copyright on all site materials. Contact us for further dealings

Identifier

EW 2017/121

Type

image

Citation

“50" lens testing using a rebuilt radar dish mount and with two operators where one followed the azimuth movement and the other the elevation. Designed to test better tracking of aircraft and missile interception,” Waterworth Optical Collection, accessed March 29, 2024, https://waterworth.omeka.net/items/show/169.

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