SONAR is an acronym...
What does it stand for....??
Rickie
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SONAR is an acronym...
What does it stand for....??
Rickie
:dono
SOund Navigation And Ranging
Wow, this quiz ended quick:Rofl
Yep, back near the end of WWII they needed some type of snappy acronym to compete with radar; but sonar had been around for a lot longer before that. Anyone want to guess who and when one of the earliest references for sonar was? It was a passive (listen only) system back than…
was it tapping on ship and listen for sound:dono
The old weight over the side on a marked rope....
I googled, first sonar.it said first sonar patent was in 1906.also had this picture.i don't no why???
I think it was a bellQuote:
Originally Posted by slabbacks
slabback ,even in the old testament,before CHRIST they did that with a rope and weight
Leonardo Da Vinci first used a tube stuck in the water with his ear pressed against one end of the tube...somewhere around 1490 something...
Sonar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rickie
Was that quiz 13.5.........give us some more Greg.Quote:
Originally Posted by Humminbird_Greg
:HandsClappingQuote:
Originally Posted by BobB
Rickie
Bob, I think Greg was a Sonarman on Admiral Dewey's Flagship:Rofl:RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by BobB
Rickie nailed it. Wiki is a wonderful thing isn't it?
Hard to believe that sonar has been around for so long yet we think of it as a modern invention... makes me wonder if we are actually discovering anything new at all or just rediscovering it.
I'll have to think of some more for maybe later - for some reason that popped into my head when I read Rickie's original post and mduncan62 answered it so quickly; I just didn't want the thread to end so soon.