. A new thermo-electric fluid-meter and hot-wire anemometer. I ^££^E^e&2u^n. SECTION VIII. ^AGE 201 SCIEHCE AND RESEARCH ACHIEVEMEKTS. The faollltleB for the raanufactTire ofinstruments neoeaaary to give airplanes, pilotsand observers their greatest usefulness wereextremely limited at the outbreak of the war. Themaking of these instiruments involved practicallythe formation of an industry now to this dvne 1918, twenty types of instruments were inproduction and being supplied for installation intraining, bombing, and fighting planes. The listincluded airspeed indicators, altimeters,
. A new thermo-electric fluid-meter and hot-wire anemometer. I ^££^E^e&2u^n. SECTION VIII. ^AGE 201 SCIEHCE AND RESEARCH ACHIEVEMEKTS. The faollltleB for the raanufactTire ofinstruments neoeaaary to give airplanes, pilotsand observers their greatest usefulness wereextremely limited at the outbreak of the war. Themaking of these instiruments involved practicallythe formation of an industry now to this dvne 1918, twenty types of instruments were inproduction and being supplied for installation intraining, bombing, and fighting planes. The listincluded airspeed indicators, altimeters, compasses,safety belts, oxygen apparatus, radio sets and allother necessary adjuncts for the navigation of theair and for safety and comfort of the pilot. The Aeronautic Instruments Section of theScience and Research Division of the Signal Corps,in addition to fulfilling the function specificallyassigned to it of writing all the initial specifi-cations for aeronautical instruments in use on planes,and in working continually with the instruments inproduction in order to de
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