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Book Condition: Used Very good
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

United States
About Item: United States Army Land Warfare Laboratory, 1974., 1974.. Very good. - Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in light blue printed wrappers backed with a black vinyl spine. The edges of the covers are faintly foxed. 71 pages, with full-page and textual illustrations and charts throughout. Very good. <p>First edition.<p>An unclassified report discussing the "test, evaluation, and analysis of a charged coupled device (CCD) imagery system as might be deployed in artillery launched, parachute dropped, aerial reconnaissance system...." - [Quoted from the project's "Abstract"].<p>Fairchild Systems was a United States defense contractor. The San Francisco Chronicle described the company as "one of the legendary names of Silicon Valley" and noted that its Bay Area operations were a training ground for the engineers who went on to found Intel and other top semiconductor companies.
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