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Most of this work related to military research done on measuring muzzle velocities of artillery, and fire control.
The army had no direct way of measuring cannon muzzle velocities so they contracted RCA to develop high-speed timing equipment.
Coils through which projectiles would be fired would produce start and stop signals, while a counter counted cycles of an
oscillator.
Work on digital computing was accelerated during the war, but it became clear that analog computers were going to produce
something that the Army could use sooner. That was project Typhoon. George Morton also participated in the digital
computing work as evidenced by his name appearing with Mr. Flory on several patents. One landmark patent of this era
is number 2,445,215 for Electronic Computers which describes the shift register.
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