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Title: Sky screen tracks enemy
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated December 8, 1955 reads, "Northrop Aircraft worker tests new Sky Screen radar device which increases number of unidentified aircraft which can be identified. Radar tube is mounted in top section. Mirror splits image and transfers incoming radar information onto a 16-inch plotting surface."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00116366
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d018_f5_i9
CARL0005329990
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/50116
Subject: Northrop Aircraft, Inc
Northrop Aircraft, Inc.--Employees
United States.--Air Force
Palmdale Regional Airport
Aircraft industry--California--Palmdale--Employees
Aircraft industry--California--Palmdale
Men--California--Palmdale
Moving target indicator radar
Radar--Optical equipment
Radar
Palmdale (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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