Oral reminiscences of A. B. Wood, 1960.

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Oral reminiscences of A. B. Wood, 1960.

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Manchester University (Ernest Rutherford); work on recoilations. World War I work at Aberdour; detection of submarines, underwater sound studies; W. H. Bragg joins group at Aberdour; work on Rankines photophone. Moves from Aberdour to Parkeson Quay, Harwich; calibration of hydrophones. Postwar move to Shandon, contact with C. S. Wright; measurements of velocity of sound, underwater explosion (J. J. Thomson's oscillograph); moored mines, detection of aircraft; radar forerunner of magnetron; acoustic and magnetic mines.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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