Electronics — Workhorse at bikini

A staff of over 450 personnel, 75 of whom were civilians from the Naval Research Laboratory, the Signal Corps engineering laboratory, and 13 industrial and academic laboratories, was required to carry out the electronics activities of Joint Army-Navy Task Force One for Operation Crossroads. This article comprises parts of what was presented at a joint meeting of the AIEE New York Section, the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, and the Radio Club of America on November 6, 1946. Donald G. Fink (M ´45) spoke on television and remote control as it was used at Bikini; and T. D. Hanscome described the equipment used in the telemetering of air and water pressures, the telemetering of radioactivity, the study of electromagnetic effects including radio and radar monitoring, and the measurement of timing. Several phases of electronics as used in the control of the drone airplanes and the actual detonation of the bombs were outside of the jurisdiction of the electronics co-ordinating group according to Captain Engleman who presided over the meeting.