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    A lightning detector is a device that detects lightning produced by thunderstorms. There are three primary types of detectors: ground-based systems using...
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    a lightning detector to help the forest service track lightning strikes that could start fires. His receiver proved to be able to sense lightning strikes...
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    presented a paper on a wireless lightning detector he had built that worked via using a coherer to detect radio noise from lightning strikes. This day is celebrated...
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    lightning detector networks. The United States federal government has constructed a nationwide grid of such lightning detectors, allowing lightning discharges...
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  • The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) (Urdu: محکمہ موسمیات پاکستان, also known as Pakistan Met Office), is an autonomous and independent institution...
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    1895 on which Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrated a radio based lightning detector. On 7 May 1895, Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented the paper "On...
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    Coherer (category Detectors)
    physicist Alexander Popov built a "Hertzian wave" (radio wave) based lightning detector using a coherer. That same year, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi...
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  • aircraft collision avoidance systems, flight recorder, weather radar and lightning detector. These can be as simple as a searchlight for a police helicopter or...
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  • can be triggered by other UV sources such as lightning, arc welding, radiation, and sunlight. UV detectors typically operate with wavelengths shorter than...
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    for about 150 boats and dry dock for dozens of others. A municipal lightning detector and alarm is nearby. Racing programs use Lasers, Optimists, and 420s...
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    Viruses By Dmitri Ivanovsky 1894 Nephoscope By Mikhail Pomortsev 1895 Lightning detector / Radio receiver By Alexander Stepanovich Popov 1896 Thin-shell structure...
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    III parameters, plus thunderstorm detection (via a cloud-to-ground lightning detector). AWOS III P/T: all AWOS III parameters, plus precipitation type identification...
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  • physicist Alexander Popov builds a "Hertzian wave" (radio wave) based lightning detector using a coherer. November 1895: Jagdish Chandra Bose sets up a demonstration...
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  • the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union...
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    as weather radar (typically Arinc 708 on commercial aircraft) and lightning detectors are important for aircraft flying at night or in instrument meteorological...
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    Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov's radio wave based lightning detector, also inspired by Lodge's experiment. Although Bose's work was not...
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    separated by using a lightning detector with the sensor result. Ground-based and mobile detectors obtain the direction and severity of lightning. Scatterometers...
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    and locates lightning over the tropical region of the globe. The lightning detector was a compact combination of optical and electronic elements including...
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    Upper-atmospheric lightning and ionospheric lightning are terms sometimes used by researchers to refer to a family of short-lived electrical-breakdown...
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    radar, satellite phone, LIDAR, forward-looking infrared (FLIR) and lightning detector; in addition, onboard electrical and avionics equipment are readily...
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    of the word "television", TV pioneer Alexander Popov, inventor of lightning detector, one of the inventors of radio Boris Rosing, the first to use cathode-ray...
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    information about a distant target Lightning detector – a device, either ground-based, mobile, or space-based, that detects lightning produced by thunderstorms...
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    lightning, or the incidence of individual strikes, in any particular place is highly dependent on its location, climate, and time of year. Lightning does...
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    published lectures, Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov built a lightning detector that used a coherer based radio receiver. He presented it to the Russian...
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    led to the discovery of PMNS matrix Alexander Popov, inventor of lightning detector, one of the inventors of radio, recorded the first experimental radiolocation...
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    manned and automatic weather stations, radiosondes, weather radar and lightning detectors. Office of the Comptroller General of the State (2023). "Civil Service...
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  • led to the discovery of PMNS matrix Alexander Popov, inventor of lightning detector, one of the inventors of radio, recorded the first experimental radiolocation...
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    availability, and affording data for a very wide area, are satellite-based lightning detectors which initially included optical sensors indicating flash rates and...
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    the statue causes it to be frequently struck by lightning. The Blitzortung network of lightning detectors recorded 234 strikes per year on or near the statue...
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  • Russia – radio pioneer, created a radio receiver that worked as a lightning detector Nikolay Popov (1931–2008), Russia – first fully gas turbine main battle...
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