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Innovations in communication equipment from the U.S. Signal Corps engineers working in Squier Laboratory during World War 2

Soldiers of the U.S. Signal Corps working on radio equipment in the United States. The exterior of a U.S. Army Signal Corps building with "Squier laboratory" written outside the building. The interior of the laboratory. Engineers conducting experiments and working on various equipment for communications, including Radar, Color Radio Telephoto, and single sideband transmission for long haul radio communication. A machine that appears to be spinning and heating hot glass. An engineer operating a machine beneath a sign that says "Thermionic Shake Tests." An engineer tests various signal lights. Signal Corps men observing a radio tower. Instructors teach and demonstrate various kinds of radio relay equipment to other Signal Corps personnel. A large board reads "Multiplex terminating." An officer explains a diagram to the Signal Corps personnel. Soldiers examine disassembled radios. Demonstration of a map being transmitted to a soldier in the field via facsimile machine. Close views of a spinning drum on the facsimile machine and the map visible on it. A dramatized shot of a B-17 bomber aircraft in flight. The pilot in the cockpit of the aircraft. The pilot looks at the signals transmitted through the radar. The aircraft navigates with the radar in bad weather. A map locates Boston, Lynn, Nantasket and Quincy and it is compared to the radar image of the same region.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075804
Instruments dropped by the parachutes transmit meteorological information in the United States.

Soldiers of the U.S. Signal Corps working on the radio equipment in the United States. Long range forecast by the radar instruments. Men gather on a field testing weather analysis and automatic weather station forecasting instruments. Man seated in a large portable spinning radar device in the field. The instruments dropped by parachute send the weather observations details.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075805
U.S. Army Signal Corps uses radio beacon system to guide transport planes dropping paratroopers during exercise in the Philippines

U.S. Army paratroopers are seen heading toward C-47 transport planes and boarding them for a planned post-war airborne exercise in the Philippines. A large number of C-47 transport aircraft are seen with engines running on an airfield. They begin to taxi out for takeoff. View of a C-47 plane in flight, carrying an advance trooper who parachutes out carrying a radio beacon which he is next seen setting up the "Eureka" part of Signal Corps "Rebecca/Eureka" system. Closeup of the equipment and the trooper setting it up. He assembles a long radio antenna attached to the transmitter. View of three C-47 aircraft in flight heading toward the paratrooper drop zone. Animated drawing shows how the aircraft, carrying the "Rebecca" airborne interrogators, home in on the Eureka signal from the ground. Next, paratroopers are seen exiting aircraft over the drop zone. View from another airplane of the troopers' chutes opening and them descending from the C-47s. Parachutes are silhouetted against cloudy skies. Paratroopers landing, some roughly, on the ground.

Date: 1947
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075812
U.S. soldiers setting up sound ranging equipment which locates enemy positions on a field in the United States.

The United States troops setting up radar on a field in the United States. U.S. soldiers working on the sound ranging equipment. The equipment locates enemy positions. The soldiers setting up the radar. A soldier in radio room. A sign reads: 'Radio Detonator'. Soldiers working. Buildings in the background.

Date: 1947
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075814
U.S. soldiers working on a radio detonator on a field in the United States.

A radio detonator on a field in the United States. A sign reads: 'radio detonator'. Soldiers working on the equipment. A soldier presses a button on the equipment. Explosion on the ground. Aircraft in flight.

Date: 1947
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075815
U.S. Army signal corps develops and tests a television guided missile bomb

Film starts showing so-called "Television Bomb"guided missle. Closeup of television controls in the missile. View of the guided missile mounted underneath a B-17 bomber in flight. Guidance operator seen inside the bomber. The television bomb drops away from the bomber. View of the operator inside the bomber watching a television picture transmitted from TV camera in the missile nose. He uses radio controls to steer the bomb toward a test target. The missile explodes on an isolated small island test site.

Date: 1947
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075817