Malcom Murray Signal Mirrors mesh vs flap : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Malcom Murray Signal Mirrors mesh vs flap / signal mirror
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| 説明 | Malcolm Murray (1930-2015) began working on signal mirrors after fruitlessly searching in a plane for his friend's father, a fisherman who drifted to his death when his outboard motor failed in the late 1950s. Malcolm developed his own retroreflective aimer signal mirror patterned after US military signal mirrors, and distributed hundreds below cost to fishermen in Aruba, several of whom were saved by them.Malcolm's early signal mirror designs used a retroreflective flap like WWII US Navy mirrors (right half, above). However, Malcolm soon figured out how to make the retroreflective mesh the US Navy switched to in 1949 (left half, above). All of Malcolm's mirrors since used retroreflective mesh.I've composited photos of each here to aid in comparison. Note that the edits in the instructions on the mesh mirror (left) to remove references to features of the flap aimer that are not present in the mesh aimer. The individual photos are else in this album.I photographed these in Malcolm's shop in Baytown, TX in 2010.Malcolm continued his signal mirror work for ~50 years (into his 80s). He held two US patents on signal mirrors: US 3,335,693 US 5,777,810. You can read Malcolm's obituary here: Malcolm G. Murray obituaryA short biography of Malcolm Murray may be found on pp. 488-495 of the book "The Lago Colony Legend", which describes his signal mirror work on pp. 491-492. The book is available online here: The Lago Colony LegendThe section with Malcolm's story is in Part V, which is here: Part VA good article by Malcolm Murray on signal mirrors: "Aimable Air/Sea Rescue Mirrors" appeared in The Bent of Tau Beta Pi, Fall 2004, pp. 29-32 |
| 撮影日 | 2016-01-24 20:57:20 |
| 撮影者 | signal mirror |
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