Cabinet, operator
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- OBJECT TYPE
- APT/SATELLITE GROUND SECTION
- DATE
- 1972
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1986.0024.001
- MANUFACTURER
- CAE Electronics Ltd.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASING & PARTS/ SYNTHETIC METER, CLOCK & DIAL CASINGS, CONTROLS, LIGHTS, PARTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 100.2 cm
- Width
- 56.0 cm
- Height
- 183.5 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Meteorology
- Category
- Long range forecasting equipment
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- CAE
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Québec
- City
- Montréal
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- British Columbia
- Period
- 1972+
- Canada
-
Used with American ESSA satellites, which provided meteorological data to ground satellite receiving stations of the Canadian Meteorological Service across Canada. - Function
-
Operator's control unit for antenna & receiving unit of APT (Automatic Picture Transmission) ground receiving station, used to pick up weather data from satellites. - Technical
-
Part of APT system, whereby weather satellite pictures provided by a vidicon camera system could be transmitted to simple ground read-out stations anywhere on the globe. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- black, white & green "CAE" logo on position indicator
- Missing
- OSCILLOSCOPE & TAPE RECORDER - BOTH WERE MFD BY HEWLETT PACKARD CO.
- Finish
- BLUE-GREY ENAMEL PAINTED CASING/ OFF-WHITE ENAMEL PAINTED FRONT PANEL OF UNITS/ BLACK SYNTHETIC CASINGS, KNOBS/ RED & WHITE LIGHTS/ PLATED SWITCH & HANDLES
- Decoration
- BLACK LETTERING ON PANELS
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CAE Electronics Ltd., Cabinet, operator, circa 1972, Artifact no. 1986.0024, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1986.0024.001/
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