European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 15, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Stripes Magazine a South photo by Harry Breedlove Allen checks thermopile Star thai catches any by Sam Naples Bureau was probably Allen Al Schooley Bubble machine thai landed him at Natosi Antisubmarine warfare research that and the fact that As associate director of research at the naval research Laboratory at he knew about As much about ask As anyone in not working with the Bubble machine a  said in his private lab at la the Bubble machine was an answer to a specific problem that out of my hands but it was a fascinating and i still get of correspond ence about just what was the Bubble machine at the nil naval research Laboratory we Are interested in All aspects of the sea and its while doing some radar studies we found that for some reason returns from the sur face of the sea were much More Clu tend on an upwind Reading than a downwind i tried to do Little research into the matter and found then was almost nothing available on the subject apparently no one had found the winds action on the sea surface so who holds several Patent for electronic built what he called a water wind it con listed of a High powered Tan blowing Over enclosed tank of tiny tubes released helium filled bub Bles 14 to h inches in diameter into the wind and a High Speed motion Pic Tun camera limed their at Normal him scientists wan Able to record the paths of the bubbles and therefore of the everything we got out of those tests was Basic Schooley i built Tho machine Dur ing nights and weekends when i was free from administrative duties at the lab Schooley is on loan to the Sac Lant research Center until the sum rhe navys Bubble machine Man is not an oceanographer by it was in the electronics Field that he made tint splash in the scientific in he demonstrated what probably the worlds first analog com which attracted nationwide inter Ett and in be designed and built december 1964 the first miniature Rudloe lubes to be mass Schooley joined the Navy lab in 1mo and stayed with them alter the eventually becoming associate director for among credited to schooly and his nil staff Are development of helicopter borne so Nar for submarine detection Loffre Quency sonar design design of the first live ballistic missile Impact predictor vital for Range first Demon stration of the Moon As a Rudloe relay suit Lon and development of he space surveillance radar at la Schooley finds his work really exciting id reached that stage in use As associate director at the nil when most of my Lime was spent in administrative i wanted to do much of what he is doing is under of but some aspects can be for instance the Navy to know More about the tint u to w centimetres Down in the we need to know More about the Exchange of heat Between the atmosphere end the Ocean How it who it its a problem not fully and those first Tew inches can be crucial in ask Schooley picked up an Ordinary fishing Rod with a spinning a double win ran through the Lead in and was attached to a Square plastic float thin wires and a thick plastic tube extended below the this a very simple he catching the swinging float i toss this out on and the thermopile extending Down into the water measures temperatures at it Centi meter Down and at ii centimetres it also measures the difference Between the two i try to take these at and Midnight and at 4 the system is simple and and it gives me just the information i oddly one of the first things i discovered was that the surface of the water is actually cooler than at 19 centimetres at least 80 per cent of the that an unstable Accord ing to classical of cools the but convection from below should keep things stirred interesting no a ntisuumar1ne warfare or a ask As the professionals Call a vastly complicated business not Only docs the ant sub Warrior have to be a Wise in the ways of the sea and of but be Alto must be some thing of an a an electronics a a mathematician and even a bit of a successful gone forever Are the Good old Days when a determined destroyer could hound a running submarine to the sur face with repeated barrages of depth or when an aircraft could spot a boat charging its batteries and hopelessly vulnerable flouting on the now atomic and snorkel Sunn arc True that can remain below the water for weeks on offer ing Hunters Only a slim Peri scow or snorkel As a clue to their und then Only briefly As new and invisible sensors have replaced the traditional submarines sub Skippers now can play a to loudly Hildean seek with surface hiding behind such Tricky barriers to sonar probes As density layers or Salin Ity gradients or temperature strata which offer Refuge from the pings of and with improved heat and sound seeking torpedoes and a High underwater Speed that often matches that of the sur face the subs Chance to play seek is even More More today than Are the new weapons of to und research throughout the free White smocked technicians und twee suited thinkers Are teaming up in a Hunt for better ways to find and destroy enemy much of their work is toward designing new and belter equipment for the ask but it natos Antisubmarine War fare research Center at Scenic la Snow la on the italian the emphasis is on Basic the what and Why of the sea rather than the How a ask can be heres How the centers Deputy direct William on loan to nato from the Navy ordnance Laboratory it Silver puts it our great advantage Here that the Center does not have b develop hard this it possible for us to Advance our Baste research to a much greater extent than most nationally operated in most research there is great pressure to put a new idea or discovery into practical or hardware quickly As forcing a curtail ment of further Basic study of the ques the former Morehead state col lege professor of sex Here we engage in Basic our of of tie in with ask but we just find out All we can on the demonstrate How it May be applied to ask and then pass the information on to the nato nations from there on its up to said bespectacled Wineland in his comfortable office it the main building at the Spetla italian Nurul the la pc flu Center was opened in 1959 under the direction of adm Jar cult then supreme Allied com although organized a nato the Center was largely an american show until february when it became a nato International military organization with nato finance the staff has grown to 50 because of the development of the nuclear powered Natl Nama Rae warfare is the most challenging problem facing naval the Success of nato la wartime could Well depend of keeping the Tea of the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean adm James Russell Allied forces Southern Europe perhaps our toughest problem overcoming the submarine ii is a changing threat growing More dangerous at each at it was As the soviet submarine Fleet grew rapidly to More 400 now we free the addition of technical propulsion and missile firing there is no or surefire answer to the we hat we Are making adm Charles Griffin commander Schlef Europe and Rybout 100 technicians from 10 nato they work under the direction of famed norwegian acoustical scientist Henrik a Veteran in ask experimental work with the British Royal Navy in world War is typical of the great efforts Many nations in nato an put used on Page 111 the stars and stripes the nato Center b testing a mud electronic device on this 11