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The magic eye (also called a cat's eye, or tuning eye in North America) is a specific type of such a tube with a circular display similar to the EM34 illustrated. Its first broad application was as a tuning indicator in radio receivers , to give an indication of the relative strength of the received radio signal, to show when a radio station ...
Cat eye glasses, a style of horn-rimmed glasses designed for women; Cat's eye (toy), a kind of toy marble; Cat's Eye (cocktail), a gin-based cocktail; Cat's eye (road), a type of road marker using retroreflectors; Cat eye tube, an electron tube used as a visual indicator
Percy Shaw, of Halifax (then in the West Riding of Yorkshire) invented the cat's eye. Reflecting Roadstuds was set up a year later in 1935. Reflecting Roadstuds was set up a year later in 1935. It required £500 from two company directors and established a 20-acre (81,000 m 2 ) manufacturing site with 130 workers, later making a million ...
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Commercial retroreflective beads thus vary in index from around 1.5 (common forms of glass) up to around 1.9 (commonly barium titanate glass). The spherical aberration problem with the spherical cat's eye can be solved in various ways, one being a spherically symmetrical index gradient within the sphere, such as in the Luneburg lens design ...
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