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U.S. Navy's Submarine Detector Wins War Aid in WWI
A wartime report chronicles the development of the American submarine detector by General Electric and Western Electric with Navy oversight. Field tests off Nahant and Corfu demonstrated listening devices that tracked U boats from miles away, driving German subs to the bottom and signaling a turning point in Atlantic anti submarine warfare.
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United States
Navy Department
Bureau of Steam
J. S. Griffin
Wny
General Electric Compat
W.ok. Whitney
Commis Research Laboratories
Commander 8
McDowell
U.S. N
Col
F. 2. Jewett
Western Electric Company
Ral MG Kun
University of Chicago
New London
New London, Conn.The Goeneral Etectric Company
Submarine Signal Company of
Boston
Nahant
Mass
Western Electrics Company
Erie
Aistretnert
Vito
Leitch
Carter
Welch
U.S
Eli F Eveleth
C. F. Scott
Tor. Collins
General Electric Company
Nubant Group
W. J. Nelson
Scapalow
Orkney Islands
I Admiralty
Supreme War Comed Wily
Iétus
America
AP Tito
Penzance
Hiaste
British
Naval Intelligence Department
English Channel
Scott
Adriatic Sea
Corfu
Otranto
Adriatic
North Sea
Chinser
Catin