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2 unusual facts about Proximity fuze


Proximity fuze

Baldwin was a member of the (APL) team headed by Tuve that did most of the design work.

Ralph Belknap Baldwin

Prior to his lunar work he was Senior Physicist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory during World War II working on the Proximity fuze.


Paul Eisler

It drew no interest until the United States incorporated the technology into work on the proximity fuze which was vital to counter the German V-1 flying bomb.


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