Japanese Inventors Develop Degaussing Coil Holder

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 7, 2006 ;     239 words ......Kobashi of Fukui, Japan, have developed a degaussing coil holder for fastening a degaussing coil around a cathode ray tube. According...amp; Trademark Office: "To provide a degaussing coil holder for fastening a degaussing coil...

degaussing

A Dictionary of Physics;      120 words ......may become magnetized and misdirect the electron beams. A degaussing coil is often provided and fed with a diminishing alternating...opposite field. This prevents the ships from detonating magnetic mines. Degaussing is used to protect scientific and other electronic...

Minesweepers: Deadly duty in Korean waters

VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......supervised mine assembly, but actually laid magnetic mines off Korean coasts. The war was only...sound of a passing ship's engines. Magnetic mines, also bottom-dwellers, were set off...signal sent into the depths exploded magnetic mines. Helicopters, planes, divers, sonar...

A WAR HERO'S BIGGEST BATTLE; After tackling 114 sea mines, 50 bombs and 50...

Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England);  September 2, 2001 ;     443 words ......safe, disposal or blowing-up' of some 114 sea mines, seven magnetic mines and 50 anti-tank and boat bombs. In addition, he tackled...counter 'Hitler's Secret Weapon', a highly dangerous series of magnetic mines, and was the first naval officer ashore with the main liberation...

John M. Forbes, 82; worked to protect ships from mines

The Boston Globe;  September 5, 1992 ;     256 words ......designed the coils that help protect steel-hulled ships from magnetic mines, died Thursday in his home in Woods Hole of chronic lung...can be fatal to a ship if it encounters a magnetic mine. Magnetic mines were designed to sense a ship's magnetism, detach themselves...

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Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      52 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 de|gauss (de gous) vt. to demagnetize (as a ship for protection against magnetic mines) by passing an electric current through a coil or coils along or around the edge in order to neutralize the surrounding...

Obituary: Sir George Edwards Aircraft designer with a flair for...

The Independent - London;  March 7, 2003 ;     700+ words ......War. In September 1939, the German Luftwaffe began to lay magnetic mines in the Thames Estuary, to the grave peril of Allied shipping...de-gaussing" Wellingtons were completed successfully to explode magnetic mines in home waters - and thereafter in the Suez Canal and the...

OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH FUNDS FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF INNOVATIVE...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 15, 2008 ;     557 words ......installed a revolutionary high-temperature superconducting degaussing coil system on board the USS Higgins (DDG 76) at the naval station in San Diego, Calif. The new degaussing coil - the first of its kind to be installed on board a naval...increased threats to U.S. Navy ships posed by undersea ...

Obituary: Professor J. M. Hirst

The Independent - London;  February 16, 1998 ;     700+ words ......construction making it easier for them to avoid detonating magnetic mines. Hirst had a number of commands before being sent early...a path to Trieste. To counter the wooden-hulled MLs the magnetic mines were by now fitted with long, floating snag lines attached...

American Superconductor Components Part of HTS Degaussing System

Wireless News;  July 31, 2008 ;     502 words ......Philadelphia for a high temperature superconductor (HTS) degaussing coil system that has completed initial electrical testing onboard...electrical tests of an AMSC designed and manufactured HTS degaussing coil on a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer." ((Comments on...

WEST VIRGINIAN OF THE YEAR: Charles T. Jones; Coal miner, farmer,...

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  December 26, 2004 ;     700+ words ......it was bombed in 1945. We stayed in Japan for a year sweeping up magnetic mines the Air Force dropped in the waterways during the war. With our submarines and magnetic mines, we just about shut down all the harbors and ports in Japan. The...

How My Ship Swept for Mines; Very, Very Carefully, and We Kept Our Fingers...

The Washington Post;  August 2, 1987 ;     700+ words ......of the ship. "Bet on it," they said in minesweep school. Magnetic mines explode when they read the magnetic field created by a steel...That's why minesweepers are wooden. But they need to sweep magnetic mines for the steel ships that will follow, and to do so they...

How a brave naval officer played a role in Coventry's war history; WHEN HE...

Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  April 16, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Safe. The diary continues: It seems Jerry has been dropping magnetic mines by parachute on London and quite a few haven't gone off...in a flour mill in Rotherhithe (then spelt Rotherhythe). Magnetic mines attached themselves to sea vessels but on land a clockwork...

The wooden wonders of Wonsan

Sea Classics;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......in to Wonsan Harbor they learned that the inner-harbor had recently been sowed with more than 3,000 of the latest Russian magnetic mines. SYNOPSIS OF PART ONE WITH GENERAL MACARTHUR'S INSISTENCE THAT ANOTHER AMPHIBIOUS LANDING CLOSER TO THE YALU RIVER WAS REQUIRED...

Comical Weapons; Will Basil Brush and Roadrunner follow Flipper into...

The Sunday Herald;  March 30, 2003 ;     700+ words ......from the port of Umm Qasr. A Navy spokesperson denied the dolphins were in any serious danger. The mammals are looking for magnetic mines, he said. "The dolphins going by the mines aren't going to set them off. They only go off when a big ship goes by." Using...