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Photograph caption dated March 1, 1963 reads, "William Sutherland, Sylmar, climbed into the pool at Lockheed-California Co.'s Burbank plant the other day and set about testing 'Moby Dic [sic] I,' a sea-sound reporter that will sneak up on whales and porpoises and listen to their 'conversations.' The Moby Dic [sic] in the pool is a small-scale model - one-quarter the size of the proposed full-scale robot craft that would be equipped with television cameras above and below water surface. Radio controlled, the Moby Dic [sic] will operate a half-mile from the Lockheed oceanographic mother ship. Model was created by Sutherland and William Evans, Chatsworth, shown at controls."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Lockheed-California Company Lockheed-California Company--Employees Recording instruments--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Underwater acoustics--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Swimming pools--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Underwater cameras--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Men--California--Los Angeles Underwater acoustics--Instruments Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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