Norden
Speech parts
1. Norden - Noun
2. Norden - Proper noun
Meaning
A surname.
Various places, including:
A hamlet in Dorset, England, formerly in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY9483).
A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8514).
A village in Nevada County, California, United States.
A township in Pennington County, Minnesota, United States.
A town in Aurich district, Lower Saxony, Germany.
Norden (plural Nordens)
Short for Norden bombsight.
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Also, its decade-long head start and Ted Barth’s promotional ability had fully entrenched the Norden Company’s business position with the military hierarchy.
Conditions in the European theatre made it very difficult to achieve the accuracy that had been possible using the exceptional and top-secret Norden optical bombsight in the clear skies over the desert bombing ranges of Nevada and California.
But numbers aside, Norden said the group will be remembered for their day-to-day approach to the program.
Examples include: * Systime Ltd. of the United Kingdom produced clones of early VAX models such as the Systime 8750 (equivalent to the VAX 11/750). citation * Norden Systems produced the ruggedized, Military-specification MIL VAX series.
Even with its faults, the Norden bombsight was a technological marvel for its day.
This event must have rattled Norden, who held Germans as untrustworthy and yet employed numerous craftsmen of German descent in the manufacture of his bombsight.