kinetheodoliten.
/kɪnɪθiːˈɒdəlʌɪt/ A telescope used to follow the path of a projectile, aircraft, or the like, and mounted so that its elevation and azimuth angles are indicated.
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finder1738
night-glass1758
collimator1825
floating collimator1833
lookdown1865
guiding telescope1897
autocollimator1903
kinetheodolite1941
finderscope1946
satellite telescope1951
scotoscope1964
starlight scope1964
1941 Illustr. London News 198 380/2 The girls work with two kine-theodolites set far apart and connected at the firing position by a central control post which photographs the shell-bursts.
1946 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 50 925/1 Bombs of differing weights were dropped... They were followed visually by kine-theodolites, which gave the flight path.
1958 New Scientist 21 Aug. 655/1 The contributions..on the tracking of the Russian satellites..were quite outstanding. Thus the data obtained using kine-theodolites by scientists of the Ministry of Supply were the most accurate optical observations reported.
1961 Engineering 26 May 750/3 Woomera has a number of double kinetheodolite sites, one instrument tracking the missile, the other the target aircraft.
1965 K. J. Turner in M. A. Perry Flight Test Instrumentation III. 229 The model trajectories are recorded by..kine~theodolites.
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