Scripps Institution of Oceanography Visibility Laboratory records, 1954-1969.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography Visibility Laboratory records, 1954-1969.

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The accession consists of Records of the SIO Visibility Laboratory, including files of director Seibert Q. Duntley and physicist John Edwards Tyler. Includes subject files, correspondence files, photographs and committee files. Also includes photographs and files on COSPEAR (Committee on Space Programs for Earth Observations) and OSA (Optical Society of America).

3 lin. ft. (3 record cartons)

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8116987

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Library. Archives.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Visibility Laboratory

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The Visibility Laboratory originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1939. Its mission was to apply optics to problems of camouflage and misdirection with respect to an anticipated aerial bombardment of Boston, and its early work was supported by the WPA. When the War began, National Defense Research Committee funding was secured, and the work of the Laboratory centered on investigations of target locations and the location of downed pilots. After the War, the Laboratory received...

Duntley, Seibert Q.

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Duntley (1911-). Physicist. From the description of Papers, 1940-1972. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 78403370 ...

Committee on Space Programs for Earth Observations.

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Optical society of America

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The Optical Society was established in 1916 to increase and diffuse the knowledge of optics in all its branches, pure and applied, to promote the mutual interests of investigators of optical problems, of designers, manufacturers, and users of optical instruments and apparatus of all kinds, and to encourage cooperation among them. It is a founding Member Society of the American Institute of Physics. From the description of Programs, 1927-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80490136 ...

Tyler, John E. (John Edwards), 1911-

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