• Introduction
    • History and Purpose of the collection
  • History
    • Measurement Building / TNO Waalsdorp
    • TNO Rijswijk & Ypenburg
    • TNO Soesterberg
    • World War II period
    • North Sea Flood 1953
    • Computer history
    • 95 years at Waalsdorp
    • Royal visits
  • Technical research
    • Air acoustics
      • First assignment (1928)
      • Theoretical and practical research (1929 – 1936)
      • Acoustic correction (1928 – ’29)
      • Electric transport of position data (1929 – ’30)
      • 2- and 3-axle listening devices (1932 – 1940)
      • Speech Transmission Index (1970+)
      • Acoustic sniper localisation (1996 – ’98)
    • Radio Communication
      • Meteorograph (1934 – ’39)
      • UHF telephone (1935 – 1940)
      • Reuse of a WWII Würzburg-Riese antenna (1947 – 1977)
      • Panoramic receivers (1953 – 1964)
      • Non-eavesdroppable ship-to-ship (1954 – 1962)
      • Automatic Reporting and Identification System (1987 – 2000)
      • 60 GHz stealth communication (1992 – 1999)
    • Ballistic measuring devices
      • Measuring time interval (1950 – 1970)
      • Optically measuring projectile velocity (1955)
      • Measuring projectile’s end velocity (1972)
      • Measuring hit accuracy patterns (1973)
      • Spark flash camera (1974)
      • Continuous Wave Doppler homodyne radar (1980)
    • Infrared technique
      • Period 1934 – 1953
      • Period 1960 – 1970
      • Period 1970 – present
      • Quality of photo detectors (1971)
    • Radar (EN)
      • Electric listening device (1936 – 1941)
      • Transponders (1959 – 1995)
      • Phased Array radar research (1962 – 1984)
      • PHARS and PHARUS (1990 – 1999)
      • Bodyscanner (1982 – 2009)
      • SHIRA (1984 – 2005)
    • Underwater acoustics
      • Period (1938 – 1940)
      • Period (1946 – 1957)
      • SOCRATES (2001+)
    • Counter sea and landmines
      • Period 1938 – 1941
      • Countering seamines after 1946
      • Operational PAP Simulator (1986 – 1992)
    • Digital Technology
      • Digital fire control
      • Radar image processing
      • Printed circuit board production (1961 – 1977)
      • Universal Dynamo Meter Bench (1979 – 1992)
      • Tanker Remote Vision System (2006)
  • Other research
    • Operations Research
      • The early period 1955 – 1964
      • Multi Criteria Analysis (1970+)
      • Hunting Operations (HUNTOP) – 1978
      • Decision support system for chemical incidents (GasMal) 1990’s
      • FEL Coverage Planner (FELCOP) – 1992
      • Single Airbase Logistics Model (SALOMO) – 1992
    • Command & Control
      • KIBOWI (1970 – 2005)
      • ICARUS (1993 – 1997)
      • NATO Anti-Air Warfare System (1987- 2000)
    • Capita selecta
      • Forward Air Controller Training (1996 – 2001)
      • Robojeep (1998 – present)
      • Critical Infrastructure Protection (1995+)
      • Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (2002+)
  • Research facilities Defence and Safety
    • Measurement station Roeleveense Plas (1953 – 1995)
    • Electro-Magnetic Pulse (1970 – 1993)
    • Electromagnetic launching (1983 – 1997)
    • Test facility for outdoor intrusion detection systems (1990 – 2005)
    • 76 mm gun (1992+)
    • Landmine detection testbed (1997- ~2005)
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History LEO(K) Oegstgeest

History of the LEO(K), Oegstgeest

First floor of the MEB building was used by the Test and Development Department, the later LEO and even later the LEOK
The first floor of the MEB building was used by the Test and Development Department, the later LEO and the even later LEOK
  • Prof. Jhr. Ir. J. L. W. C. Von Weiler – the pioneer of the Dutch radar developments (1935 – 1972)
  • The early history of the LEO (1950 – 1955)
  • Joining TNO and the merger with the Physics Laboratory (1982 – 1985)
  • Computer history LEOK 1961 – 1974
  • Computer history LEOK – Ferranti FM1600
  • Computer history LEOK – Mech LUA Trainer
  • Computer history LEOK – Analog and hybrid computing
  • Computer history: the merger of the LEOK and Physics Laboratory

 

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