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S. Berliner, III's

Narda Ultrasonics Page

Consultant in Ultrasonic Processing

"changing materials with high-intensity sound"

Technical and Historical Writer, Oral Historian
Popularizer of Science and Technology
Rail, Auto, Air, Ordnance, and Model Enthusiast
Light-weight Linguist, Lay Minister, and Putative Philosopher

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S. Berliner, III

Consulting in Ultrasonic Processing

SONOCHEMISTRY * REACTION ACCELERATION * DISRUPTION
HOMOGENIZATION * EMULSIFICATION * POLLUTION ABATEMENT
DISSOLUTION * DEGASSING * FINE PARTICLE DISPERSION
BENEFICIATION OF ORES AND MINERALS
CLEANING OF SURFACES AND POROUS MATERIALS

[consultation is on a fee basis]

MEMBER Board of Directors

Narda Ultrasonics

Corporation

This page is intended to elicit information about Narda Ultrasonics Corporation, a Long Island firm which pioneered high-intensity application of ultrasonic energy ca. 1946-1960.

I had previously stated elsewhere on this site that Narda Ultrasonics Corporation was presumably subsumed into Narda Microwave Corporation, which was bought out by the Loral Corporation, which, in turn, was acquired in 1996 by Lockheed Martin Corporation.

However, on 11 Dec 00, I got word from a holder of old Narda Ultrasonics shares that the Narda Ultrasonics Corporation of NY was acquired by Dynasonics Corporation of Minnesota in 1965 (a reverse 20-1 stock split) and that Dynasonics was later liquidated (perhaps some 3-4 years later). Dead end!

Thus, this solicitation for information about Narda Ultrasonics Corporation for a forthcoming book, "High-Intensity Ultrasonic Technology and Applications", on the application of power (high intensity) ultrasonics, the use of ultrasonic energy to change materials (intended for Marcel Dekker's "Mechanical Engineering Series", edited by Profs. Lynn L. Faulkner and S. Bradford Menkes).

There still may be hope on the horizon, however; Lockheed Martin's Webmaster kindly directed me to L-3com's site where I discovered that former top Loral executives Frank C. Lanza and Robert V. LaPenta, in conjunction with Lehman Brothers and Lockheed Martin, formed L-3 Communications Corporation in April, 1997, including in it Narda-East in Hauppauge, New York, which office I've contacted.

I solicit input in the following forms:

1. Corporate/Organizational/Personal History.

2. Significant Technical Breakthroughs.

3. Thumbnail Biographies of Leading Innovators.

4. Photographs of Major Representative Equipment.

5. Diagrams of Major Applications and Processes.

and, of course,

6. Permission to edit and reproduce the above for publication.

7. Reprints of any articles published about equipment and applications.

8. Copies of any Patents which covered outstanding innovations.

These are the gut items that will highlight, flesh out, and humanize the otherwise dry facts of ultrasonic cleaning, welding, bonding, joining, cutting, drilling, and the myriad other applications.

This will be a practical text, not so much "how-to" as "what has been done, is being done, and can be done".

The foregoing solicitation is excerpted from the Call for Contributions for Book on my ULTRASONICS page, et seq. (which you might wish to visit), with much more about ultrasonics.

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