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The Development History of Submarine Periscopes
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Beschreibung
The development history of submarine periscopes from the first beginnings in the 19th century until the present day.
The development history of submarine periscopes from the first beginnings in the 19th century on. Within the last 120 years, an impressive technological transformation took place in which the conventional glass-optic periscope with direct view at first became an opto-electronoic (optronic) periscope equipped with TV and infrared cameras and then was completely transformed to an optronics mast that does not penetrated the hull of the submarine any more.
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Harry Schlemmer
The author received a PhD in 1980 from University Hannover in the field of Laser physics and has worked in the development of opto-electronic instruments since then. After ten years with the Central Research of Carl Zeiss in Oberkochen he changed to the field of military optics and was engaged in many development programs with special emphasis on thermal imagers, submarine periscopes as well as panoramic periscopes and sighting telescopes for armoured vehicles. He is author of several books about the history of military optics, 'History of submarine periscopes at Carl Zeiss' (2011), 'Seeing an Invisible World - History of Thermal Imaging' (2018), 'ABC of Tank Optics' (2022) and 'Gepanzerte Tag- und Nachtsicht - Die Entwicklungsgeschichte der Panzeroptik' (2024).
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Technikgeschichte Militäroptik military optics submarine periscopes U-Boot-Sehrohre