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”(The United States 8th Air Force announced December 28 the development of secret scientific navigation devices which permit American bombers to bomb accurately f rom as high as 25,000 feet targets obscured by either clouds or fog. The announcement said the new methods had been used successfully in missions involv¬ ing a total of 8,000 bombers and fighters).
"An anonymous Swedish scientist said in the newspaper Dagens Nyheter that the RAF was apparently using a radar-radio location navigation device transmitting infra-red rays which pierce fog and cloud. When the rays are reflected from the eafth, they are recorded on a cathode ray tube forming a pattern which the navigator can read like a map.
"This scientist credited the develooraent to a RussianAraerlcan scientist named Zworykin who was said to live in Camden,
N. J. "
To which the Associated Press in the United States adds
this note:
"The scientist mentioned is Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin, long connected with cathode ray tube research for television and other electronic purposes. This tube has the ability of making radio signals visible.
"Dr. Zworykin, who has been associated with the Radio Corporation of America at Camden and Princeton, N. J, , since 1930, as associate research director, also is credited with development of the electron microscope in which the cathode ray tube is used. He came to this country from Russia when a young man in 1919, "
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STATE DEPT.’S COM VIUNI CATIONS DIVISION MAY BE SUBDIVIDED
No successor as yet has been chosen to succeed Thomas Burke, who recently resigned as Chief of the Division of Interna¬ tional Communications of the State Department. One reason assigned to the delay was that the question might be under consideration of dividing the Division into three divisions Communications, Ship¬ ping, and Aviation, It was said that the present division is too large for one man to handle.
Mentioned as the logical successor to Mr. Burke was Francis Colt de Wolf, present assistant in the Division. If three divisions are created, it is believed Mr, de Wolf would be the one most likely to head the Communications Division,
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