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|designers=Walt Phelps;George Edens; | |designers=Walt Phelps;George Edens; | ||
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* [[Media:Tek rotan 500-series.pdf|ROTAN: A Dynamic Angular Transducer for Oscilloscope Display of Rotation-Related Phenomena]] | * [[Media:Tek rotan 500-series.pdf|ROTAN: A Dynamic Angular Transducer for Oscilloscope Display of Rotation-Related Phenomena]] | ||
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'''ROTAN''' refers to an early ROTational ANalyzer device developed in the late 1950s. | '''ROTAN''' refers to an early ROTational ANalyzer device developed in the late 1950s. | ||
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In the 1960s, ROTAN was superseded by the [[Engine Analyzer System]]. | In the early 1960s, still under the ROTAN label, the [[183|183 Rotational Analyzer]] with its [[182|182 optoelectronic encoder]] allowed up to 20,000 rpm. | ||
In 1967, ROTAN was superseded by the [[Engine Analyzer System]]. | |||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
* [[Patent US 2924712A]] | * [[Patent US 2924712A]] | ||
* [[Patent US 3495451A]] | |||
* [[Engine Analyzer System]] | * [[Engine Analyzer System]] | ||
{{Documents|Link=ROTAN}} | {{Documents|Link=ROTAN}} | ||