Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of technicians at work at the Lockheed Corporation's Missile Systems Division, ca.1950. A man stands in the foreground, leaning against a large squared machine and reading the etchings it makes on what appears to be a large paper surface. In the background, three men stand facing a wall of assorted machinery. Photoprint reads: "Van Nuys California. Electronic telemetering equipment transforms a cacophony of sound into significant mathematical quantities. The sounds are transmitted from a vehicle in flight and recorded by a ground monitoring station. Recordings are run through electronic data reduction gear, shown in background and reproduced on IBM punched cards. Plotter, foreground, produces graphs for missile performance study and analyses by division researchers".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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