Wood, A. B. (Albert Beaumont)
Reminiscences of A. B. Wood [sound recording], 1960.
Reminiscences of A. B. Wood, Mrs. Ethel Wood, and George W. Wood, taped in the living room of the Wood home, Middlesex. England, in September and December 1960. Discussion of Wood's education at 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.
Bragg, William Henry, 1862-1942
Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937
Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940
Wood, A. B. (Albert Beaumont)
University of Manchester
Acoustical engineering.
Hydrophone.
Magnetrons.
Mines, Submarine.
Oscillograph.
Radar.
Sonar
Sound -- Equipment and supplies.
Sound -- Measurements.
Submarine boats.
Ultrasonic equipment -- Great Britain.
Ultrasonic transducers.
Underwater acoustics -- Instruments.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Science.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Radar.
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Audiotapes
American Institute of Physics.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA