engineers instrument ELECTRONICS AND RADAR: Ford Instrument engineers are doing advanced work in electronics for data handling computers. Radar design, transistor work, airborne equipment, and both digital and analog computer development are the backbone of the company’s research. The techniques FICo has devel oped in this work have application in the design of com mercial and industrial automatic controls. ..Jy'v* .'X y , AIRPRAFT INQTRIIMFNTATMN ■ Instrument Company are being: installed in the most HliiuflHr I lflOlnUlflLll Inilun • modern aircraft. Instruments for jet engines, for polar Ground position indicators, course and distance com- navigation, and aerial telemetery are emerging from the puters and other navigation equipment developed at Ford laboratories and into the shops of the FICo plants. For over forty years, Ford Instrument has been designing the computers and controls that aim our naval guns and torpedoes, direct our rockets and warplanes and more recently, control nuclear reactors. Not widely publicized for security reasons, but highly regarded by the experts in the field, the achievements of the 2500 people at Ford Instru ment Company have been advancing control engineering and computer development in many fields. Very soon, FICo will interview applicants on this campus to fill engi neering positions for some of the most rewarding and interesting projects in America. Watch for further announcements. FORD INSTRUMENT CO> DIVISION OF SPERRY RAND CORPORATION 31*10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City 1, New Yoifc a • 5 doing are Company CLOSED CYCLE GAS-COOLED REACTOR: This peacetime application of nuclear power is being studied at FICo. Operation of thi3 type of reactor is based on the use of nitrogen or helium under pressure as the working fluid for direct transfer of energy from reactor to turbine. The feasibility of building by 1961 a power plant using this type of reactor to propel an oil tanker is now being worked on in FICo laboratories. "S .- ; ~* v ' v v-V* w v ),. •• ;-‘<?>V^x '* ■rs . --■•sTv--;
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