Navy Radio Station, Point Loma, 1924. View to southeast. Station is in center.
Navy Radio Station, Point Loma, 1934. View to southeast.
Navy Radio Station, Point Loma and Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory, 1942. View to southeast. Building 2 under construction at right center.
Navy Radio Station, Point Loma, at time of comissioning. View to northeast. The road at the left of the fence becaue Catalina Boulevard.
A Massie Wireless Telegraph Company, 5-kilowatt transmitter was installed at the Radio Station in 1906.
Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory, Building 4, under construction. View to the northeast from Catalina Boulevard.
Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory (NSRL), 1943. View to northwest with Catalina Boulevard at left. Navy Radio Station, Point Loma, in background.
Sweetwater Lake, 17 miles from Point Loma, was used as a field station for the transducer program.
"Building X." In June 1944, the University of California Division of War Research (UCDWR) moved its headquarters to the Bridges Mansion off Chatsworth Boulevard.
Navy Electronics Laboratory 1954, View to west, Building 33 in center.
Battery Ashburn, Fort Rosecrans. One of two 10-inch guns installed and proof-fired in 1944.
Groundbreaking ceremony for Building 33 on 24 June 1949. Wielding the shovel is RADM W.D. Baker USN, Commander of the Eleventh Naval District. Watching (center) is CAPT R. Bennet, USN, Director of Naval Electroncs Laboratory (NEL).
Antenna Model Range. The model ship, 1/48 scale, is mounted on a brass-covered turntable 22 feet in diameter centered in a lead-covered circular concrete base.
Sound Fixing and Ranging (SOFAR) System. Model Study for SOFAR movie.
Battery Whistler after conversion for use by NEL. The old mortar battery was converted to a laboratory for testing the effects of seawater and different water pressures on materials devicers used by submarines.
Variable-Angle Launcher (VAL) at Morris Dam. An enhanced version of the fixed angle launcher, the VAL allowed scientists to vary the angle of water entry of torpedoes to approximate different air-drop speeds and altitudes.
Oceanographic Research Tower.
Acrylic elevator at the Oceanographic Research Tower. The acrylic sphere accommodated an operator and one passenger for the descent through the 60-foot water column to the ocan Floor. Dr. William McLean is pictured at right.
Cousteau's Diving Saucer was used in coordination with the Oceanographic Research Tower.
