Brezk-íslenzk viðskipti - 01.12.1946, Blaðsíða 3

A New Tradition
In the long history of marine navigation, those who go down to the sea in ships have
looked to the compass, the sextant and the chronometer as their traditional guides across the
seven seas. The modern mariner now has another powerful ally in the form of Radar. This
development of the wartime application of directive ultra - short - wave radio pulses presents
on a cathode ray tube screen a continuous “picture” of all surrounding objects within a
selected range, regardless of weather conditions. Thus fog loses its terrors and any vessel — be
it the giant “Queen Elizabeth” or a tiny coaster — may proceed with confidence under the
revealing guidance of
C 0 S S 0 K
M A R1 N E R A D A R
COSSOR RADAR L T D . , HIGHBURY, LONDON, N.5
Tel: CANonbury 1234 (33 lines)
First in the ivorld to produce radar receivers
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