A page from the Bombardier's Information File ( BIF ) that describes the components and controls of the Norden bombsight.

Some of the most widely deployed analog computers included devices for aiming weapons, such as the Norden bombsight, and fire-control systems, such as Arthur Pollen's Argo system for naval vessels.

* Replacement of their Norden bombsight with a makeshift aiming sight devised by pilot Capt.

Attachments for this sort of bombing were fitted to examples of the famous Norden bombsight, but in practice this concept proved unworkable.

In order to reduce this workload, mechanical calculators were increasingly common during World War II, including the famous Norden bombsight and the less well known British Mark XIV bomb sight and German Lotfernrohr 7.

The sole purpose of the Bombardier College was to train young men to use the Norden bombsight.

The Norden bombsight at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

The Norden bombsight was a tachometric bombsight used by the United States Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) and the United States Navy during World War II, and the United States Air Force in the Korean and the Vietnam Wars to aid the crew of bomber aircraft in dropping bombs accurately.

The Carl Zeiss Lotfernrohr 7, widely deployed by the Luftwaffe, was an advanced mechanical system technically similar to the original Norden bombsight.

Even small errors in levelling could produce dramatic errors in bombing, so the Navy had Norden design a gyro platform for their existing Mark III bombsight ( a copy of the RAF's Course Setting Bomb Sight ) to eliminate this source of error.

Starting in 1932 and proceeding in fits and starts for the next six years, Norden developed the Stabilized Bombing Approach Equipment ( SBAE ), a mechanical autopilot that attached to the bombsight.

Norden actively attempted to make the bombsight incompatible with the A-5, and it was not until 1942 that the impasse was finally solved by farming out autopilot production to Honeywell Regulator, who combined features of the SBAE with the A-5 to produce the C-1.

The Norden bombsight was developed during a period of United States non-interventionism when the dominant U. S. military strategy was the defense of the U. S. and its possessions.

Over Japan, bomber crews soon discovered strong winds at high altitudes, the so-called jet streams, but the Norden bombsight worked only for wind speeds with minimal wind shear.

After investing more than $ 100 million in Sperry bombsight manufacturing plants, the AAF concluded that the Norden M-series was far superior in accuracy, dependability, and design.

The Carl Zeiss Lotfernrohr 7, or Lotfe 7, was an advanced mechanical system similar to the U. S ' Norden bombsight, or in form to the Sperry S-1.

When the Korean War opened, these aircraft were pressed into service and the Norden once again became the USAF's primary bombsight.

To improve the calculation time, the Norden used a mechanical computer inside the bombsight to calculate the range angle of the bombs.

The Norden bombsight consisted of two primary parts, the gyroscopic stabilization platform on the left side, and the mechanical calculator and sighting head on the right side.

Notable among these as the radar system called the H2X ( Mickey ), which were used directly with the Norden bombsight.

Information on the Norden bombsight, which Burroughs produced beginning in 1942.

* Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight at TED

As the aircraft approached the target, the pilot turned the aircraft over to the bombardier and the Norden bombsight, which was also an automatic pilot that flew the aircraft as bombs were released over the target.

This type of story was a major feature of the radio program My Word !, with a contest between Denis Norden and Frank Muir to see whose story was the most outrageous ending to each show.

TAT-10 was AT & T's 10th transatlantic telephone cable, in operation from 1992 to 2003, initially carrying 2 x 565 Mbit / s between USA and Norden in Germany.

The A-segment was the part on the US continental shelf, the B-segment went North of Scotland, the C-segment crossed the North-Sea continental shelf to Norden.

The D-segment was a special festoon leg that carried 3 x 565 Mbit / s from Norden, repeatered at land at West-Terschelling to Bergen near Alkmaar.

It was originally named " Sång till Norden " (" Song to the North "), and the first words of its lyrics have become adopted as the title in the interim.

A Swedish population evidently settled here, and a local cemetery in Uxbridge was their burial site, Norden cemetery, near the Millville line.

The district was established in 1977 by merging the former districts of Aurich and Norden.

He was cast in this role by adaptors Frank Muir and Denis Norden, who had seen him in the West End.

Karnak was visited and described in succession by Claude Sicard and his travel companion Pierre Laurent Pincia ( 1718 and 1720 – 21 ), Granger ( 1731 ), Frederick Louis Norden ( 1737 – 38 ), Richard Pococke ( 1738 ), James Bruce ( 1769 ), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt ( 1777 ), William George Browne ( 1792 – 93 ), and finally by a number of scientists of the Napoleon expedition, including Vivant Denon, during 1798 – 1799.

Ustinov and Jones improvised on a tape, which was very difficult then edited for broadcast by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, who also sometimes took part.

One of the " witnesses ", a supposed SA man, appeared in court wearing a mask and claimed that it was the SA that really set the fire ; in fact, the " SA man " was really Albert Norden, the editor of the German Communist newspaper Rote Fahne.

It was created by Edward J. Mason and Tony Shryane, and featured comic writers Denis Norden and Frank Muir, famous in Britain for the series Take It From Here.

It was a companion program to My Word !, and like that show featured comic writers Denis Norden and Frank Muir.

It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and starred Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols.

Through TIFH Muir and Norden reinvented British post-war radio comedy — amongst other influences, it was one of the first shows with a significant segment consisting of parody of film and book styles, later used extensively in programmes such as Round the Horne and many television programmes.

The parody sketch, previously used in stage revues but brought to radio by Muir and Norden for Take It From Here, was very influential on comedy shows such as Round The Horne and many television programmes.

Norden was born in Mare Street, Hackney, East London, and educated at the City of London School where he was a contemporary of Kingsley Amis.

Norden was also later well-known to television audiences for his ITV shows: Looks Familiar, It'll be Alright on the Night and Laughter File.

A special show was recorded on 14 May 2006 as a ' farewell tour ' to all his shows over the years, called All the Best from Denis Norden, which was shown on 2 January 2007.

As the show's closing credits were shown, the studio audience gave Norden a standing ovation, which was followed by Norden placing his trademark clipboard on his desk, which the camera then zoomed in on to as the credits ended.