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51Oscillograph — …
52Rectilinear scanner — A rectilinear scanner is an imaging device once used in nuclear medicine. History Before the invention of the rectilinear scanner in 1950 by Benedict Cassen, nuclear medicine pioneers used to move their insensitive Geiger Counters over different… …
53Desmond Paul Henry — (1921–2004) was a Manchester University Lecturer and Reader in Philosophy (1949–82) and was one of the first few British artists to experiment with machine generated visual effects at the time of the emerging global computer art movement of the… …
54AN/FPS-17 — The AN/FPS 17 is a ground based fixed beam radar system that was installed at Pirinçlik Air Base in south eastern Turkey.This system was deployed to satisfy scientific and technical intelligence collection requirements during the Cold War. The… …
55pagoda cells — Ganglion cells, from the central nervous system of a leech, with a spontaneous firing pattern that can look a little like a pagoda on an oscilloscope …
56Lissajous figure — /lee seuh zhooh , lee seuh zhooh /, Physics. the series of plane curves traced by an object executing two mutually perpendicular harmonic motions. [1875 80; named after Jules A. Lissajous (1822 80), French physicist] * * * also called… …
57Erlanger, Joseph — ▪ American physiologist born Jan. 5, 1874, San Francisco, Calif., U.S. died Dec. 5, 1965, St. Louis, Mo. American physiologist, who received (with Herbert Gasser (Gasser, Herbert Spencer)) the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1944… …
58flight, history of — ▪ aviation Introduction development of heavier than air flying machines. Important landmarks and events along the way to the invention of the airplane include an understanding of the dynamic reaction of lifting surfaces (or wings), building… …
59ramp — In electrical recording, a uniformly rising voltage or current. If reset to zero at regular intervals, it forms a sawtooth pattern used to provide the time sweep of a cathode ray oscilloscope beam; if reset to zero by a …
60Distortionmeter — (or more precisely distortion factor meter) is an electronic measuring instrument which displays the amount of distortion added to the original signal by an electronic circuit. Harmonic distortion Distortion is equivalent to adding harmonics to a …
