Records of the NRAO > Photographs Series > Electronics, Computers & Equipment Unit

Collection Items

Jansky Lab, 1963
Description: Bill Meredith at the IBM 1620 computer in the Jansky Lab, April 1963
Start Date: 1963-04-25

Jansky Lab, 1963
Description: Bill Meredith at the IBM 1620 computer in the Jansky Lab, April 1963
Start Date: 1963-04-25

Green Bank Boiler Room, 1963
Description: Alfred Collins
Start Date: 1963

Rolling a Damaged Screen, 1966
Description: John Ralston on right.
Start Date: 1966

Interferometer Lab, Mid-February 1967
Start Date: 1967-02

Interferometer Lab, Mid-February 1967
Start Date: 1967-02

Interferometer Control Rack, Mid-February 1967
Start Date: 1967-02

Interferometer Feed, Mid-February 1967
Start Date: 1967-02

Interferometer Lab, Mid-February 1967
Start Date: 1967-02

Charlottesville Computer Room, 1967
Description: The Charlottesville computer room in 1967. Standing is Sandy Braun, and at the console is Mary Jennings, an IBM employee. There were computer operators on duty 24/7, and tapes of data taken in Green Bank, at the 140ft, the 300ft, and the…
Start Date: 1967-03-08

NRAO Electronics, December 1968
Description: Correlator wiring
Start Date: 1968-12-10

NRAO Electronics, 1968
Description: Throughout its history, NRAO has shipped state-of-the-art electronics for use in observatories around the world. In March 1968 NRAO loaned to CSIRO a 6 cm front-end containing a cooled parametric amplifier, to be used for joint observations on…
Start Date: 1968

NRAO Electronics, January 1970
Description: Sandy Weinreb with front end box
Start Date: 1970-01-16

Delicate Instrument Crate, 1971
Description: Wendel Monk and Dorman Williams.
Start Date: 1971

Delicate Instrument Crate, 1971
Description: Wendel Monk and Dorman Williams.
Start Date: 1971

NRAO Equipment, May 1972
Description: Laser measuring device
Start Date: 1972-05-18

NRAO Equipment, April 1973
Description: John Payne and vibrating device
Start Date: 1973-04-16

NRAO Equipment, October 1973
Description: Chuck Brockway, Bill Brundage, John Payne, Tony Hamed with vibrating device.
Start Date: 1973-10-01

NRAO Equipment, October 1973
Description: John Payne with vibrating device
Start Date: 1973-10-01

Feed Horn, January 1974
Start Date: 1974-01-21

NRAO Electronics, January 1976
Description: Janet Varner holding circuit board. This was probably a circuit board for the Green Bank Interferometer correlator
Start Date: 1976-01-15

NRAO Electronics, 1976
Description: Janet Varner pointing to a circuit board. This was probably a circuit board for the Green Bank Interferometer correlator.
Start Date: 1976

Surface Measuring Stand, 1977
Description: John Ralston.
Start Date: 1977

NRAO Computer, November 1977
Description: IBM 1403 line printer output for IBM 360 computer
Start Date: 1977-11-18

Installation and Cable Connection #2, 1977
Description: Left to right: Dave Vandeventer, Gene Markham.
Start Date: 1977

Removing FEB from Test Ring, 1977
Description: Herb Haynes.
Start Date: 1977

Maser Rack, 1978
Description: Winston Cottrell
Start Date: 1978

Hoist and Front End Box, 1978
Description: Sidney Smith
Start Date: 1978

Hoist and Front End Box, 1978
Description: Sidney Smith
Start Date: 1978

NRAO Electronics, August 1979
Description: RFI monitoring vehicle
Start Date: 1979-08-07

NRAO Electronics, November 1979
Description: RFI monitoring truck in Green Bank, 1979. The generator on the trailer was later moved to the inside of the truck. The equipment installed was a spectrum analyzer, NRAO radio and a CB radio. The CB was used to detect power line noise. One could not…
Start Date: 1979-11-20

NRAO Electronics, November 1979
Description: RFI monitoring vehicle in Green Bank
Start Date: 1979-11-20

Motor Drive Unit, 1980
Description: Russ Poling
Start Date: 1980

Motor Drive Unit, 1980
Description: Russ Poling
Start Date: 1980

NRAO Electronics, October 1981
Description: RFI monitoring truck in Green Bank, 1981. This was the same truck as in the 1979 photo, but configured differently. The antenna is not mounted on the back but is a telescoping mast mounted inside the truck ; there is an opening for cables going to…
Start Date: 1981-10-18

NRAO Electronics, 1983
Description: Shing Kuo Pan and Neil Horner in Charlottesville's Central Development Laboratory in August 1983, testing a Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor (SIS) millimeter-wave mixer for the Tucson 12-m telescope. They are in front of the mixer test setup…
Start Date: 1983-08

NRAO Electronics, February 1984
Description: Four feed 21 cm receiver
Start Date: 1984-02-07

NRAO Electronics, February 1984
Description: Four feed 21 cm receiver
Start Date: 1984-02-07

NRAO Electronics, 1989
Description: The unique work and cutting edge technology at NRAO's Central Development Laboratory draws visitors from around the world. In this photo dated 19 October 1989, NRAO's Matt Dillon (in red shirt) and Garnett Taylor (in striped shirt) show off the…
Start Date: 1989-10-19

Working with a Dewar in the Central Development Laboratory in Charlottesville, VA, August 1993
Description: In the Central Development Laboratory in Charlottesville in 1993, NRAO engineer Nancyjane Bailey, works with the dewar used to test the superconducting SIS receivers (the so-called "rockets") for NRAO's 12 meter telescope at Kitt Peak, AZ. …
Start Date: 1993-08

NRAO Electronics, 1996
Description: NRAO's MAP team in 1996: l. to r. John Webber, Ed Wollack, Nancyjane Bailey, Bill Lakatosh, Skip Thacker, and Marian Pospieszalski. In June 1996 NASA contracted with NRAO to design and build amplifiers for the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP),…
Start Date: 1996

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