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Meteor Warning System
A system that provided rockets in flight with early warning of meteors. (Read the full article)
| "This can be retconned as a form of radar, since by "magnetic" Hamilton might have meant "electromagnetic." If so, it predates Murray Leinster's infra-red naval radar-like system." (Jordan Bassior 9/25/2007 12:58:57 PM ) |
| "Jordan - I'm not aware of the Leinster idea; Hugo Gernsback of course wrote about the actinoscope in Ralph 124c 41 +, published in 1911.
" ( 9/26/2007 10:32:30 AM ) |
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