http://www.metafilter.com/tags/soundmirror Posts tagged with 'soundmirror' at MetaFilter. Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:52:53 -0800 Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:52:53 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/41068/Echoes%2DFrom%2DThe%2DSky <a href="http://www.coastdrive.com/echo.html">First built in the 1920's</a>, and predating <a href="http://www.lexcie.zetnet.co.uk/radar.htm">the</a> <a href="http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/LRG/Secweap.htm#RADAR">use</a> <a href="http://starbulletin.com/2000/02/22/news/story3.html">of</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar">Radar</a> in <a href="http://www.snapshotsofthepast.com/navyradarwwiirecruitmentwarposter.html">World War II</a>, <a href="http://www.ajg41.plus.com/images/mirror/abbot05.jpg">early</a> <a href="http://www.ajg41.plus.com/images/mirror/boulby3.jpg">warning</a> <a href="http://www.ajg41.plus.com/images/mirror/dungeness8.jpg">"sound</a> <a href="http://www.ajg41.plus.com/images/mirror/redcar2.jpg">mirrors"</a> were used to provide some means of detecting <a href="http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Air_Power/WWI_Combat/AP4G1.htm">incoming</a> <a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=he-111&btnG=Search">enemy </a> <a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=ju-87&btnG=Search">aircraft</a>. First used in World War I to listen for <a href="http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/ww1/ww1-6.htm">Zeppelins</a>, their vestigial remnants <a href="http://www.hyperkit.co.uk/dungeness/">dot the</a> <a href="http://www.ajg41.clara.co.uk/mirrors/index.html">English coastline</a>. <a href="http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/ear/ear.htm">The bizarre legacy of the sound collectors</a> lives on through some <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/01/29/namp29.xml">decidedly nerdy enterprises</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.41068 Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:52:53 -0800 cleverhumans radar sound soundmirror soundmirrors wwi wwii basicchannel