Rommel
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This experimental device was developed during World War II by behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner, who experimented with harnessing pigeons' pecking movements to steer missiles. Skinner divided this nose cone into three compartments, and proposed strapping a pigeon in each one. As a bomb headed towards earth, each pigeon would see the target on its screen. By pecking at the image, the birds would activate a guidance system that would keep the bomb on the right path until impact. Skinner's idea received initial support, but the U.S. military finally dismissed it as impractical.
http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=353
Nose cone of a pigeon-guided missile developed by behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner, 1944
Detail of the three screens of the nose cone. A pigeon was behind each screen.
also see: http://electronicdesign.com/Globals/PlanetEE/Content/4964.html |
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