Category:Sound locators

This category refers to passive acoustic detectors which were used as a military air defense technique between World War 1 and 2 to detect approaching enemy aircraft by listening for the sound of their engines. The development of radar in World War 2 rendered this technology obsolete.

Subcategories

This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.

A

Acoustic mirrors‎ (5 C, 24 F)

D

Denge acoustic mirrors‎ (16 F)

R

Ringtrichter-Richtungshörer‎ (7 F)

Media in category "Sound locators"

The following 58 files are in this category, out of 58 total.

111-SC-28665 - NARA - 55216780.jpg 8,513 × 5,781; 20.34 MB
111-SC-28666 - NARA - 55216782.jpg 8,513 × 5,781; 20.15 MB
111-SC-28667 - NARA - 55216784.jpg 8,513 × 5,781; 20.1 MB
111-SC-28668 - NARA - 55216786.jpg 8,513 × 5,781; 18.56 MB
111-SC-28669 - NARA - 55216788.jpg 8,513 × 5,781; 18.6 MB
111-SC-28670 - NARA - 55216790.jpg 8,513 × 5,781; 18.34 MB
111-SC-28671 - NARA - 55216792.jpg 8,513 × 5,781; 17.45 MB
111-SC-28672 - NARA - 55216794.jpg 8,513 × 5,781; 18.36 MB
111-SC-38732 - NARA - 55236624.jpg 8,457 × 5,613; 20.6 MB
111-SC-38737 - NARA - 55236634.jpg 8,457 × 5,613; 19.78 MB
111-SC-38739 - NARA - 55236638.jpg 8,457 × 5,613; 20.87 MB
1932 sound locator.jpg 1,613 × 1,076; 160 KB
Acoustic aircraft detection horns.jpeg 700 × 490; 67 KB
Acousticlocatorusarmy1935.jpg 320 × 264; 23 KB
Aerofono Italiano 1939.jpg 1,223 × 1,600; 458 KB
Airplane Detection Appt001.jpg 4,791 × 6,012; 1.25 MB
Airplane Detection Appt002.jpg 4,852 × 5,937; 1.41 MB
Akustika.jpg 1,024 × 768; 235 KB
Amplifiers, Bolling Field LOC npcc.05071.jpg 5,411 × 4,403; 3.05 MB
Amplifiers, Bolling Field LOC npcc.05072.jpg 5,417 × 4,385; 3.19 MB
Antiaircraft defence Sweden 1940.jpg 1,945 × 1,305; 2.99 MB
Appareil d'écoute de DCA, L'aéronautique, juillet 1919.tif 1,433 × 1,122; 2.64 MB
Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14569813599).jpg 2,022 × 3,136; 1.1 MB
Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14570192827).jpg 1,982 × 1,512; 529 KB
Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14756628655).jpg 1,974 × 3,260; 1.49 MB
Budapest 12 50 01 988000.jpeg 3,024 × 4,032; 4.21 MB
Captured French apparatus used these to detect airplanes, WWI (29414820355).jpg 2,719 × 1,860; 4.6 MB
Free Tourist Camp, Sheldon, Illinois (NBY 428886).jpg 830 × 527; 103 KB
French acoustic aircraft locator WW1 1915.jpg 2,400 × 3,420; 4.23 MB
Giant listening horns like this were used to listen for approaching aircraft during the Great War once aircraft were used for more than just recon and became weapons (12589950653).jpg 1,024 × 679; 456 KB
Horchgerät Elascope.jpg 2,112 × 2,816; 1.63 MB
Ilmatorjuntamuseo 094 - (38511957166).jpg 1,200 × 1,500; 518 KB
Julien Bryan - Ambulance 646 - 26.jpg 864 × 301; 38 KB
Kuulosuunnin-haukilahti.jpg 4,547 × 3,279; 7.95 MB
Large Air Sound Detector Type 90.jpg 1,197 × 766; 139 KB
Listening machine pic1.JPG 3,648 × 2,736; 4.07 MB
Listening machine pic2.JPG 3,648 × 2,736; 5.08 MB
Lot-2292-2 (38628768230).jpg 2,951 × 2,352; 1.61 MB
Pershing Square, 1941.jpg 680 × 536; 303 KB
Queensland State Archives 4777 Civil aviation noise detector May 1953.png 480 × 720; 236 KB
Queensland State Archives 4778 Civil aviation noise detector May 1953.png 490 × 720; 245 KB
Queensland State Archives 4779 Civil aviation noise detector May 1953.png 490 × 721; 208 KB
RIAN archive 38689 Defending the Moscow sky.jpg 824 × 1,024; 288 KB
SC 193131 - Pvt. Don Doornkaat, Chicago, Ill., moves in on a captured German aircraft listening device outside Plabennec, near Brest, France. 20 August, 1944. (53408021355).jpg 5,419 × 4,481; 1.66 MB
Sound locator C39 at Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung Koblenz.jpg 724 × 800; 172 KB
Sound locator IWM.jpg 2,592 × 1,944; 2.3 MB
T3 sound locator.jpg 741 × 529; 84 KB
Tytärsaari, Saksalaisia kenttälinnoituksia Tytärsaaren itärannalla, SAKuva-108816.jpg 4,961 × 3,538; 5.19 MB
US Army acoustic aircraft locator 1925.jpg 931 × 1,063; 386 KB
WAACs operating sound detector, 1944.jpg 664 × 499; 47 KB
Wartuba.jpg 1,200 × 900; 693 KB
Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung Koblenz 35 (9797689925).jpg 4,608 × 3,456; 6.35 MB
WWI Directional Microphones for Aircraft Detection 01.jpg 2,632 × 3,356; 362 KB
WWI Directional Microphones for Aircraft Detection 02.jpg 3,748 × 2,372; 365 KB
WWI Directional Microphones for Aircraft Detection 03.jpg 1,984 × 1,340; 217 KB
WWI Directional Microphones for Aircraft Detection 04.jpg 2,692 × 3,672; 409 KB
Битва за Москву. Расчет ЗТ-5.jpg 1,993 × 1,382; 670 KB
Звуковий локатор.jpg 250 × 178; 17 KB

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Sound_locators&oldid=315868059"