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  2. Chain Home - Wikipedia

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    The marker at the top of the screen was used to send the range to the fruit machine. The operator display of the CH system was a complex affair. The large knob on the left is the goniometer control with the sense button that made the antenna more directional. Determining the location in space of a given blip was a complex multi-step process.

  3. V-2 rocket facilities of World War II - Wikipedia

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    A World War II map shows the two areas where the Germans were setting up their secret "V" weapons to bombard England (right, center). These are the areas in which the Royal Air Force and 8th Air Force heavy bombers concentrated their bombs in order to knock out the weapons -- part of the pre-invasion plan.

  4. V-2 rocket - Wikipedia

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    The V2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range [4] guided ballistic missile.The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German ...

  5. Extrastriate cortex - Wikipedia

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    In terms of Brodmann areas, the extrastriate cortex comprises Brodmann area 18 and Brodmann area 19, while the striate cortex comprises Brodmann area 17. [3]In primates, the extrastriate cortex includes visual area V3, visual area V4, and visual area MT (sometimes called V5), [3] while V1 corresponds to the striate cortex, and V2 to the prestriate cortex.

  6. Observer effect (physics) - Wikipedia

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    In physics, the observer effect is the disturbance of an observed system by the act of observation. [1] [2] This is often the result of utilising instruments that, by necessity, alter the state of what they measure in some manner. A common example is checking the pressure in an automobile tire, which causes some of the air to escape, thereby ...

  7. Infraorbital nerve - Wikipedia

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    The infraorbital nerve is a branch of the maxillary nerve (itself a branch of the trigeminal nerve (CN V)). [1] It arises in the pterygopalatine fossa.It passes through the inferior orbital fissure to enter the orbit. [2]

  8. Maui Space Surveillance Complex - Wikipedia

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    The 3.67-meter telescope, known as the Advanced Electro-Optical System (AEOS), owned by the Department of Defense, is the United States' largest optical telescope designed for tracking satellites. The 75-ton AEOS telescope points and tracks very accurately, yet is fast enough to track both low-Earth satellites and ballistic missiles .

  9. Visual cortex - Wikipedia

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    The extrastriate areas consist of visual areas 2, 3, 4, and 5 (also known as V2, V3, V4, and V5, or Brodmann area 18 and all Brodmann area 19). [ 1 ] Both hemispheres of the brain include a visual cortex; the visual cortex in the left hemisphere receives signals from the right visual field , and the visual cortex in the right hemisphere ...