The DEW Line Story - 1958 United States Army Distant Early Warning Radar System - WDTVLIVE42. Distant Early Warning System - 1950's US Army Radar Documentary "The Big Picture" - WDTVLIVE42. The DEW LINE Sites in Canada, Alaska & Greenland. DEWLINER CONTACT PAGEFind your old friends NOTE: To view Site photos or articles. Click on the site name in the SITE TABLE below Map courtesy of the North American Air Defence Online Radar museum Transpec Mileage Chart Lateral Site to Site distances, Runway information (length - width - elevation), , Vertical distances to selected points, etc (courtesy John Vandenberg) BACKGROUND The Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line began on 15 February 1954 when President Eisenhower signed the bill approving the construction.
It, was designed and built during the "Cold War" as the primary line of air defence warning of "Over the Pole" invasion of the North American Continent. The actual construction of the 58 sites took place between 1955 and 1957. CONSTRUCTION STATISTICS You will find some interesting DEWLine Construction Statistics here. The North Warning System Office (NWSO), a joint Canadian/American effort, was initially staffed as an entity in late 1985 and early 1986. The DEWLiner Song Please. S Best Photos of dewline. Flickr Hive Mind is a search engine as well as an experiment in the power of Folksonomies. All thumbnail images come directly from Flickr, none are stored on Flickr Hive Mind. These photos are bound by the copyright and license of their owners, the thumbnail links take to you to the photos (as well as their copyright and license details) within Flickr. Because some other search engines (Google, etc.) index parts of Flickr Hive Mind, you may have been led here from one of them.
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See it Yukon Territory Apr 2009 By Canadian Art Mention of the Distant Early Warning Line, or DEW Line, is bound to summon thoughts of Stanley Kubrick’s classic Cold War–paranoia satire Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. But for cultural historians and artists, the DEW Line and its associated legacies still provide a fascinating study of not-so-distant anxieties. The project also carries a rich archival element.
From Whirlwind to Mitre: The Ramp;d Story of the Sage Air Defense Computer - Kent C. Redmond, Thomas Malcolm Smith. Space-Based Early Warning: From MIDAS to DSP to SBIRS. Oral-History:Herbert Weiss. From GHN About Herbert G. Weiss Weiss was an MIT undergraduate in electrical engineering who began work on MIT’s Instrument Landing Program (ILP) in the late 1930s, spending some time working at Tuxedo Park too. He came into the MIT Rad Lab about April 1941 and started working in the receiver group under Lew Turner. His greatest contribution was to make a stable receiver that was lightweight—he got the weight down from 50 pounds to ounces. Later in the war he started doing systems programs work, integrating receivers, etc., into functioning systems.
He helped assemble an American knock-off of the British Oboe navigational system, then spent 1943-44 in England installing American Oboes into bombers. About the Interview Herbert G. Interview # 099 for the IEEE History Center, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Copyright Statement This manuscript is being made available for research purposes only. It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Herbert G.
Western Electric History. Western Electric History The Genius of Electricity ("Golden Boy") Trademark of Western Electric. Renamed "The Spirit of Communications" by the local Bell operating companies. See photos of statue and details at end of this document. Click here get a larger view of this chart. We Offer Personalized One-On-One Service! Call Us Today at (651) 787-DIAL (3425) Click image above to see enlarged view Contents: Western Electric Telephones Western Electric - A Brief History Download the Microsoft Word 97 format of the following document by clicking here. An old Western Electric hand once said: "I always like to think of AT&T as a manufacturing company that happens to have a few operating departments. " Gray and Barton Lucent Technologies is a manufacturing company that is actually older than its onetime "parent.
" Research and the Bell System Transcontinental Telephone Line Motivation thrives on striving for a goal that appears attainable only with a superhuman effort. Loudspeakers The Hawthorne Plant. Lincoln Laboratory: History: SAGE Radars. Complementing the work on the Cape Cod System was an extensive radar development effort to increase response times through early-warning radars. Radar systems were developed for use in the air, over water, and in the Arctic. Although these radar developments were not formally part of the SAGE project, they were necessary to make the overall nation-wide air defense system work, and Lincoln Laboratory had a large role in their development. In the summer of 1952, a group of scientists, engineers, and military personnel met at Lincoln Laboratory to consider ways to improve the air defense of North America.
Headed by Jerrold Zacharias, the group included Albert Hill, director of Lincoln Laboratory, Herbert Weiss and Malcolm Hubbard, among others from the Laboratory, and a number of distinguished scientists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Isidor Rabi, and Robert Pound. The plan for SAGE, already under way, was to detect, identify, track, and intercept just such aircraft. The DEW Line. The Distant Early Warning Line and the Canadian Battle for Public Perception. This information has been archived for reference or research purposes.
History DND photo A completed DEW Line radome, circa 1956. by Adam Lajeunesse For more information on accessing this file, please visit our help page. Introduction In December 1954, construction began on the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, an integrated chain of 63 radar and communication centres stretching 3000 miles from Western Alaska across the Canadian Arctic to Greenland.1 This predominantly-American defence project, designed to detect Russian bomber incursions into North American airspace, was the largest technological undertaking the Canadian Arctic had yet witnessed. What is Sovereignty? The idea of sovereignty is an amorphous and multifaceted concept that has evolved throughout history to suit the various circumstances of the day. Fundamental to legitimizing sovereignty is the fact that a state’s right to control its territory is recognized and accepted by the international community.
A Soviet Tu-95 Bear bomber. Matthew Farish — Geography & Planning. I am a historical geographer, and much of my work has been concerned with relationships between militarization and geographical knowledge in the twentieth-century United States. This has led to three overlapping projects: 1. A history of geographical thought in the U.S. from 1940-1960. My book The Contours of America's Cold War was published in the fall of 2010 by the University of Minnesota Press. 2. 3. My broader interests include North American urban culture (particularly from the 1940s-1980s); geopolitics and journalism; and 'popular' forms of geography. Books Matthew Farish, The Contours of America’s Cold War (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters Matthew Farish, "The Lab and the Land: Overcoming the Arctic in Cold War Alaska," Isis (forthcoming 2013). Matthew Farish, "Militarization," in Klaus Dodds, Merje Kuus, and Joanne Sharp, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, forthcoming 2013).
Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen. Copyright: International Boundary Research Group, Durham University, Royaume-Uni Exposition produite par la Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen avec l’appui du Conseil des Arts du Canada. Un projet de Charles Stankievech De loin, les phénomènes variables du Nord magnétique nous servent de guides, comme l’étoile Polaire, mais plus on se rapproche du domaine mystérieux de l’Arctique, la navigation et les communications commencent à se dérégler, forçant le nomade à faire l’expérience d’un no man’s land.
Le passé de l’Arctique a été marqué nonseulement par la colonisation militaire et religieuse, par la conduite de tests dangereux et par un mépris envers un écosystème fragile, mais aussi par des projets inventifs et sensibles. Une constellation de concepts pour naviguer dans l’exposition : FRONTIÈRES : « Une frontière n’est pas une connexion, mais un intervalle de résonance », disait Marshall McLuhan en parlant de la région arctique du Canada située entre la Russie et les États-Unis. R. Friday Feature 2000-07Fr -- DEW Line. DEW Line. October 6, 2000. Unbelievable! We're late again, but we think it's worth it this time. The Web site is now functional and has all of our previous issues (both Friday and Sunday) archived.
We are a long way from developing a final look, and there is much functionality to add (especially a site search capability and subscription maintenance), but we will get there. DEW Line By Michael Hora (mike@factscanada.com) At its inception, the DEW line, or Distant Early Warning system, was a state of the art project.
By 1949, the USSR had developed the atomic bomb and the capacity to deliver it by air. It was the development of the cruise missile that finally sounded the death knell for the DEW line and brought in its successors. Today, if one were to tour the original sites, there are many reminders of man's presence on the tundra. FactsCanada.ca -- CommunicationsToday's resources. Troposcatter Communication Networks. Projects. Northwest Territories Timeline.