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A US Navy lookout using an early sound-powered telephone in the Pacific about 1944 A U.S. Navy petty officer uses a sound-powered telephone during a general quarters drill. Sound-powered telephones are widely used on ships.
The talker helmet or phone-talker helmet is a combat helmet used by the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard.It was originally designed in 1942 as a special-purpose naval helmet for deck crews that could fit additional equipment the contemporary M1 helmet was incompatible with, such as a sound-powered telephone headset.
This phone is fully interoperable with the EE-8, TA-1, TA-43 and TA-312 series of US Field Phones. EE-8 A part of The Marshall Plan (from its enactment, officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) The EE-8* was used in USA from World War II to late seventies, and in Norway from World War II until the TP-6 could replace it.
The underwater telephone, also known as UQC, AN/WQC-2, or Gertrude, was used by the U.S. Navy in 1945 [16] after in Kiel, Germany, in 1935 different realizations at sea were demonstrated. [17] The terms UQC and AN/WQC-2 follow the nomenclature of the Joint Electronics Type Designation System. [18]
1 Main Circuit (1MC) is the term for the shipboard public address circuits on United States Navy and United States Coast Guard vessels.This provides a means of transmitting general information and orders to all internal ship spaces and topside areas, and is loud enough that all embarked personnel are (normally) able to hear it.
A sound-powered telephone is a telephone which transmits voice communication by wire, powered by the energy of the sound waves of the operator speaking. Principle of operation A moving-coil microphone converts the sound waves into an electrical signal, which is then converted back into sound waves at the receiver's end.
A jaw-dropping new photo shows the US Navy firing off a drone-destroying laser weapon — dubbed Helios — from one of its warships. The undated image, which was published in the US Center for ...
Shipyard modifications included installation of new single-sideband radio equipment, additional floodlights, small arms lockers, additional sound-powered phone circuits, and the addition of four M2 machine guns. The original bow mounted machine gun was replaced with a combination over-under .50 caliber machine gun/81mm trigger fired mortar that ...