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The Novak Guide to the
GM TH400 Automatic Transmission
The TH400 is an automatic shift, three-speed, longitudinally positioned transmission. It is widely regarded to be a supremely durable and legendary transmission.
The TH400 is conservatively rated at 450 ft. lbs. of input torque. Aftermarket building techniques take it well past that figure.
The Turbo 400 was introduced in 1964 in Buick and Cadillac cars and in Chevrolet and Oldsmobile cars the following year. An innovative variable pitch stator was available in the 1965-1967 cars that could essentially vary the characteristics of the torque converter.
The TH400 made its way into heavier duty GM trucks in the 1970's in 2wd and 4wd configurations. The 400 was not just a GM exclusive transmission. It is an immensely popular transmission in the automotive industry as well as the aftermarket. They are found in GM's, Jeeps, Jaguars, Rolls-Royces, Ferraris and others.
As with other GM transmissions, GM changed the naming scheme of the TH400 in 1990 and it was then referred to as the 3L80 (3-speeds, Longitudinally positioned, 8000 lbs. GVW). An overdrive version of it was introduced as the 4L80-E. This electronically controlled transmission remains in production and wide use in heavy-duty GM and military applications.
The 400 transmission has a main case of cast aluminum alloy with a length of 24-3/8" long. Its aluminum case is essentially smooth. The rear mounting face of the transmission has a hex bolt pattern with ribs running forward longitudinally. The fluid pan shape is irregular (see image, left), being likened unto a distorted Texas pattern. The TH400 is the largest of the common GM auto transmissions, but still surprisingly compact in light of the immense power they can handle.
|The TH400 and Jeeps have quite a history together. This list is of the Jeep powertrains that had this excellent transmission. The TH400 came in 2wd or 4wd Jeeps, coupled either to the popular Model 20 (or Model 21, in a few rare cases) transfer case or the Quadra-Trac, the latter being an option from 1973 to 1979. The early versions had factory block adapters. Later AMC versions had their own case with no adapter.
1965-1967, 327 V8 (Rambler / AMC)
1968-1971, 350 V8 (Buick)
1969-1972, 225 V6 (Buick)
There are two significant variations of the TH400. The TH375 was a version of the transmission used from 1972-1976 in smaller displacement cars. It is identified easiest by its "375-THM" designation cast in the underside of the tail housing. The TH475 was an extra-heavy-duty version, and was found in larger trucks from 1971 on.
If you are trying to determine the TH400 from another in a vehicle, a fast way to tell is to look at the kick down mechanism. The TH400 uses an electrical slide switch, which is controlled by the throttle linkage. The TH350 uses a mechanical cable kick-down mechanism that is attached to the throttle linkage.
An interesting variable pitch stator feature of the Turbo 400 was available in 1965-1967 Buick, Olds and Cadillacs. These are identified by the two-prong plug on the case. While 1970-1974 models also had this plug, it is for the transmission controlled spark system.
|The Turbo 400 as adapted to a Jeep or IH Dana 20 transfer case.
|A factory Jeep design of the TH400 adapter to the Dana 20 transfer case. OEM adapters are highly prone to breakage. Novak offers a strengthened reproduction of this adapter (#8624113) to replace these broken units, in addition to our superior dual-bearing design #124 adapter kit.
Transfer Case Adaptability
This transmission makes an excellent conversion transmission due to its adaptability into most Jeeps longer than CJ5s. Both 2wd and 4wd versions of the Turbo 400 can be used equally well, and there are no inherent advantages to either one once you have installed our adapter assembly.
It is of interest that the 1976-1979 AMC case, while more or less similar from the collar of the case, back, is tilted about four degrees. This was presumably for transfer case clearance purposes. Novak's #134 & #141 adapter designs compensate for this clocking to re-level the adapter and mount assembly.
2wd transmissions feature conical shaped tailhousings and an output yoke, which are replaced with a typically shorter 4wd style output shaft (included with our adapter assemblies) of varying lengths and spline counts, depending on the application. The HydraMatic can be adapted to the popular Jeep (and many IH) transfer cases, including the:
Dana 18, 1941-1971
Dana 20, 1962-1979
Dana 300, 1980-1986
Essentially all factory GM 4wd applications available with an OEM configured TH400 have adapters and transfer cases that are prohibitively long for a Jeep, and transfer cases whose sizes and gearing fall short of desirable for most Jeep applications.
Engine Compatibility and Adaptability
The front face TH400 is natively compatible with either the Chevy 90 degree "Small Block" & "Big Block" patterned engines (image, left), including the V6, V8, I6 & Iron Duke I4 (the latter mentioned only for accuracy and perhaps some comedy).
|A turn-key TH400, professionally built, OEM style or adapted and delivered to your door - ready for a variety of engines and Jeep transfer cases. Read more...
These differences only affect the front bell of the case, and all Turbo 400 cases are largely similar from that point back.
Buick / Olsmobile / Pontiac / Cadillac
Buick engines and TH400's are natively compatible when choosing a Buick V8 or V6 version of the transmission. All Buick, Olds, Pontiac and Cadillac TH400's share the same engine pattern, commonly refered to as the "BOPC" pattern.
|AMC V8 to TH400 torque converter sizing ring
A part often overlooked by installers is the factory Jeep sizing ring or shim bushing between the TH400 torque converter pilot and the AMC crankshaft bore. This ring is critical for the precise centering of the torque converter to the crank. Failure to install this part can cause front pump failure and other issues.
Novak manufactures and carries this part under Jeep #J5352374 or #5352374, as seen here..
AMC/Mopar Jeep
The first Turbo 400s found in Jeeps had a factory adapter plate, while later AMC versions had a dedicated AMC style case.
The Chevy 400 can be made compatible with AMC I6 & V8 engines. See our Kit #437AMC for details. This conversion can help make for an improved Jeep powertrain over 727, 999, AW4 and other, lesser transmissions.
TH400 Parts
Novak does carry a full line of parts for the TH400 transmission, including OEM grade and upgrade components for individuals working on their transmissions. If interested, we welcome you to contact us.
A fantastically designed and built transmission, the Turbo 400 is broadly popular for Jeep conversions. They are very servicable, buildable and their strength puts them into the top tiers of Jeep sports and performance applications.


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The current population of Howard County is 296,953 with the median age of 38. Howard County's median household income is $112,419, and the average household net worth is $935,309. 35% of Howard County's population are long term residents having lived in their homes for more than 5 years, while 17% of Howard County's population have moved in the last year.
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Age distribution represents the distribution of the population in Howard County by age group. In Howard County, the male-to-female ratio is 145,464:151,489, which is 2% higher than the ratio of Maryland, which is 2,848,201:3,042,019. Age demographic data is sourced from census, 2015.
Crime rate index represents the average crime rate for a local area in comparison to nearby areas and the national average. A crime index of 100 represents the national average. Howard County, has 28% less property crime than Maryland, and is 23% below the nation's average. Howard County, has 71% less personal crime than Maryland and when compared to that of United States, Howard County is 57% below the national average.
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I don't really measure my spices ever so measurements don't need to be accurate. Add more or less according to your preference.
BBQ Spare Ribs
– 5 lbs Pork Spare Ribs
– Olive Oil/Coconut Oil
– Salt (I use Pink Himalayan Sea Salt)
– Pepper
– 1/4 tsp cumin
– 1 tsp paprika
– 1/2 tsp chili powder
– 1/2 tsp mustard powder
– 1/2 tsp garlic powder
– 1/2 Cup BBQ Sauce
– 1/4 cup Organic Dark Brown Sugar (Optional)
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Marion Weissbord Azzarita, 81, of Hickory, passed away on Sunday, September 21, 2013 at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, NC.
Born March 11, 1932 in Milltown, NJ, she was the daughter of the late Marion Kostelnick and Robert Weissbord.
Marion's interests included reading, gardening and researching genealogy. She was an avid cook and enjoyed entertaining family and friends. Marion was also an animal lover, often adopting injured and stray animals.
She is survived by her husband, Frank Xavier Azzarita; a daughter, Joyce Lum and husband Steve of Kirkland, WA; two sons: Mike Azzarita and wife Elena of Hickory, NC, Frank C. Azzarita and wife Susan of Greensboro, NC; and grandchildren: Quinton and Maddy Lum, both of Kirkland, WA, Katie, Michael and Ben Azzarita, all of Hickory, NC, Olivia, Paige, and Ivy Azzarita, all of Greensboro, NC.
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Good thinking:) We'll explore that idea.
That is a good idea.
I wanted to mention that I set up a social group to help members out with the new version. It is open for anyone to join.
Perhaps more of a question. Is there a feature which allows the user to keep track of his/her posts? I have a difficult time figuring out where I posted last and if there was any response. Granted, I'm an old guy and talking through a computer is a relatively new adventure.
Should be a link in the darker toolbar at the top, mid screen, far right of tool bar that says "my posts". You should be able to find whatever you need there.
I'd like to see a story section where WE MEMBERS can post our own stories and get comments. I miss it on this forum :(
I know this may have been asked before, but I think that it would be really nice for users to be able to upload their own avatar?
Maybe in the near future?


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Make Me an Offer, by Wolf Mankowitz
The Art of Business
Make Me An Offer.
by Wolf Mankowitz.
Dutton. 94 pp. $2.00.
Essentially Wolf Mankowitz's quaint little book is a tough-guy detective story chase. It's been dressed up with a late Victorian pink and black jacket and finely detailed line drawings, but the language and movement are out of early Hammett. There is the characteristic brooding passage of self-examination by the hero which ends with a "to hell with it," and the typically understated description of a female: "She was wearing jodhpurs and a yellow sweater, and her figure didn't suffer by it."
What made Hammett's revelations of a private detective's adventures so compelling was their authenticity; Hammett has been a private detective. Mr. Mankowitz, identified by the publisher as "a famed London dealer in Wedgewood china," writes knowingly and unsentimentally about a Jewish antique dealer's involvement in an auction and about his search for a rare, beautiful Portland vase. The documentary approach and the Hemingway-like pretension to not being a literary man give him a legitimate chance to linger lovingly over the rich jargon and insane complexities of a trade A fine no-nonsense efficiency makes his brief character sketches tartly alive. After all, a shrewd businessman, like a shrewd detective, must have a capacity to judge human beings at least as developed as that of a writer.
The businessman as artist is rare. When he does take up art, like Wallace Stevens or Henry Green, he does so as a hobby, detaching his writing from his business. Dealer-novelist Mankowitz, however, uses the incongruity of business and writing as a basic joke, deriving much of his piquant effect from it. The farcical machinations preceding the auction scene, in which the hero juggles an astonishing combination of different private arrangements with other potential bidders, could not strike Mankowitz as antique dealer funny, or as something from which to separate himself. As writer, however, he stands off and describes the piling on of double-crosses with the hilarity of extravagant exaggeration.
Jobbing art treasures, on the face of it, is a wild enterprise, and all sorts of monstrous jokes are possible, as appeared from S. N. Behrman's recent account of the fabulous Jewish art middleman, Joseph Duveen, who helped billionaires spend their gains. According to Behrman (the fact that he is crassly wrong about his hero—whose love for his merchandise was an essential ingredient of his success in selling it—is beside the point here), Duveen's genius, among other places, lay in his remaining uncorrupted by the beauty of his goods. Mr. Mankowitz's hero, however, presumably like the author himself, lacks the great businessman's purity of indifference toward his product and becomes dangerously enamored of the magnificent Wedgwood vase, the only one of its kind, which is completely useless for profit since it has been stolen and can only be enjoyed in secret. The vase may be taken to represent the siren call of art for art's sake; the pleasure in it, the self-indulgent luxury of writing a novel instead of tending to business.
This ancient conflict between the eternal but often profitless values of art or scholarship or theology and the immense but transitory gratifications that come from sheer money in the pocket is set forth baldly and without careful control. A long justification of the dealer's business is filled with an excess of guilty bravado; and some of the crudeness is pretentious. Also, like doctors and circus people, the narrator tries to make his work seem a calling. These undertones of self-depreciation and uncertainty soften the hard professionalism, a principal virtue of trade confessions in the form of fiction.
Mr. Mankowitz has nothing to be defensive about. Novelists, in the tradition of James, have too long kept their work clean of contact with the world of carpentry, plumbing, buying and selling—the practical craftsmanship of rooted daily living. Ideally, Mankowitz should have used his experience as a dealer in the same way Conrad used his as a sailor, as the difficult and respectable stuff from which to shape art—with no apologies. But as a curiously Jewish book, Make Me An Offer suggests in its imperfection, in its tensions, the uncomfortable straining of the Jewish artist envious or contemptuous of business; of the Jewish businessman lavishly and compulsively supporting the rabbinate or a university; of the intellectual itching to work with his hands.


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up of the howl of Lindsey Troy and the rhythm of Julie Edwards. Together, the duo break
blues down to its simplest, most fundamental form: beat, melody, and meaning, while their
scorching live shows are fast becoming the stuff of legend. Deap Vally will release their
debut single, Gonna Make My Own Money, on Ark Recordings on July 30th, and make
their UK Live debut this summer.
Deap Vally first met at a needlework class - yes, really - last year. Bonding over their
crochet hooks with a love of the blues, first demos and videos of the girls' live shows have
been cropping up online with increasing frequency over the past few months, Filter
Magazine invited the band to perform at their Coachella party, and they've even caught the
ears of one Josh Homme, whose Eagles of Death Metal invited the girls to open for them
in LA.
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Food Revolution Day Recipe: Rainbow Salad Wrap by Jamie Oliver
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This month, we're featuring recipes and tips from Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Day, a global day of change for kids to learn about food and how to cook from scratch.
Photo credit: Matt Russell www.foodrevolutionday.com
Getting the kids to cook with simple, whole ingredients is easier than you think. For example, this Rainbow Salad Warp is colorful, seriously tasty and fun for kids to make.
Feel free to substitute other firm fruit and vegetables that are in season where you live. Or if you'd like, forgo the wrap and eat it as a salad instead!
Serves 6
What You'll Need
- Box grater / cheese grater
- Chopping board
- Weighing scales
- Large bowl
- Optional: Rubber gloves
- Optional: Knife
- Empty jam jar with lid
- Measuring spoons


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James A. Pearce
Salisbury Times - July 26, 1963
About 25
years ago, in an address to the Eastern Shore Society of Baltimore
City, Judge J. Harry Covington said: "In a day when general
scholarship was not so widely diffused as at the present time it was
an Eastern Shore United States senator, James Alfred Pearce of Kent
County, who, nearly a century ago proposed and carried through the
Congress the legislation to establish
the great Botanical Gardens which have been since that time the location of
the manifold and continuous experiments in scientific plant culture which have
been so important to us."
A second
writer said of him: "Sen. Pearce was a typical Maryland gentleman of
the old school. Political discord never prevented him from
maintaining amicable relations with men of opposite opinions. His
purity of character and extensive attainments, as well as his marked
abilities and judicial temperament, caused his name frequently to be
mentioned in connection with the Presidency of the United States,
although he never figured prominently as a candidate. Despite his
strong southern predilections and the acridity of the politics at
the time of his death the public tributes paid his memory by
northern senators were as generous as those of men of his own way of
Just a
little more investigation has convinced this writer that James
Alfred Pearce was a rather interesting and influential man during
the first half of the 19th century. He did not have the
color, showmanship, nor the enormous political power of Henry Clay
or Daniel Webster. Nevertheless he was "one of the most successful
public men of his period."
Alfred Pearce, a descendant of William Pearce who had settled in
Maryland about 1660, was the son of Gideon and Julia Pearce of Kent
County. Mrs. Pearce was the daughter of Dr. Elisha Cullen Dick of
Virginia, one of the physicians who cared for George Washington at
his final illness.
was born at the home of his maternal grandfather at Alexandria, Va.,
(then in the District of Columbia) on Dec. 14, 1805. His mother
died when he was just three years old, and from that time on his
care and education was directed by his grandfather. The early years
of his formal education were obtained at a private academy in
Alexandria, after which, at the age of 14, he entered the College of
New Jersey (Princeton). The young Pearce was a very good student
and when he graduated from college in 1822 it was with high
chosen profession was law, and after graduation he studied in the
office of Judge John Glenn of Baltimore. After two years of study
he was admitted to the bar in 1824 and commenced his practice on the
Eastern Shore at Cambridge. Just at the beginning of his legal
career, after a year's practice, he joined his father in Louisiana,
where he engaged for the next three years in the production of
sugar. Those three years on the plantation in the Red River region
of Louisiana probably helped to stimulate Pearce's deep interest in
agriculture, which he maintained throughout his life. When Pearce
returned to the Eastern Shore, at the end of the three-year period,
he resumed his law practice at Chestertown, "though he at the same
time found expression for his agricultural tastes by cultivating a
farm successfully."
For the
rest of his life, Pearce maintained a home in Kent County. On Oct.
6, 1829, he married Martha J. Larid (who died in 1845), and
remarried Mathilda Cox (Ringgold) on March 22, 1847.
In his
late twenties, Pearce began his rather brilliant political career,
when he was elected to Maryland Legislature in 1831. In 1835,
Pearce was sent to Congress to represent the Eastern Shore
District. He was a member of the Whig Party, and with the exception
of a single term, 1839-41, when he suffered the only defeat of his
political career by a very small majority, Pearce served in the
House until 1843.
In the
latter year he was elected by the Maryland Legislature to a seat in
the United States Senate, where he served though three successive
elections until his death in 1862. After the break-up of the Whig
Party in the late 1850's, Pearce was elected to the Senate in the
campaign of 1859 as a member of the Democratic Party.
separate sources give us a good brief view of Pearce's leadership
and influence in the Senate. One man wrote: "In the senate he
quickly attracted notice and continued to grow in influence until
the breaking out of the war of secession, after which he was one of
the small number of opposition senators who were helpless in the
presence of an overwhelming majority." Another has written: "It was
probably in the committee rooms that his influence as a senator was
most felt, for there his analytical mind, the extent of his
information, his industry, and his patience for details gave his
opinions authority.
Throughout his life, Pearce was somewhat of a student - a man with a
broad culture, but specially attracted to the fields of education
and science. For years he was a member of the Board of Visitors and
Governors for Washington College at Chestertown, and he was also a
law lecturer there from 1850 to 1862. As a public servant, he had a
major interest in the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian
Institution, the botanical gardens of the District of Columbia, and
the United States Coast Survey. For many years he was the chairman
of the Senate's Committee for the Library of Congress.
This man
of many interests still found time to play an active and influential
role concerning some of the major domestic and foreign problems of
the period. In the 1840's, when America was experiencing the
pressure of "Manifest Destiny," and the people were talking of war
with Great Britain because of the Oregon boundary dispute, Pearce's
logical and calm judgment led him to see that the British claims
were not without foundation. Pearce argued for arbitration, and
said that the slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight," made him wonder
whether our national bird was "an eagle at all, or some obscene bird
of prey."
Maryland senator's thinking on a civil service system was also in
advance of the period. He took a firm and practical stand against
the "spoils system" then in use of making appointments; he declared
that he had never attempted the removal of any individual because of
his political views, if that person was an efficient worker, and
that he, Pearce, never intended to do so.
In 1850,
when Henry Clay and others in congress were attempting to deal with
boundaries of some territory which the United States had recently
acquired and at the same time quiet the slavery agitation with
compromise measures in 1850, known as the "Omnibus Bill," Pearce
became a bitter opponent of Sen. Clay. Pearce claimed that too many
different problems were being grouped together, and that unless
amendments and changes were made, the bill would be defeated. The
defeat of the bill happened, but Clay blamed Pearce for the defeat,
resulting in bitter feelings between the two men. Pearce wrote to a
friend, "The compromise bill was lost by Mr. Clay's one blunder,
tho', like Napoleon, who never lost a battle, but charged every
defeat on some subordinate, he has endeavored to make me the
scapegoat falsely and unjustly, for which I will never forgive him."
In this
same year, when Millard Fillmore became President, Pearce was
offered the judgeship of the U.S. District Court for Maryland, and
also nominated by the President for Secretary of the Interior.
Although the latter nomination was confirmed by the Senate, Pearce,
preferring to remain in the Senate, declined the offers.
Concerning the important slavery question, Pearce represented the
attitude of the conservative southerner, but he usually avoided
discussing the subject, believing agitation unwise, unless there was
some major issue presented. He was very active in the debates of
1854 discussing the Kansas-Nebraska bill, at which time he moved to
amend the bill so that only bona fide citizens of those two
territories would have the right to vote. In 1856 he opposed the
admitting of Kansas into the Union under the so-called "free state"
constitution. And in the same year he was appointed a member of the
Senate Committee to consider the action to be taken in the rather
famous Brooks-Sumner Affair - when Rep. Brooks of South Carolina
cane-whipped Sen. Sumner of Massachusetts.
election of Lincoln and the secession of the seven states of the
lower South caused Pearce much distress. Since he had become a
member of the Democratic Party he had been most active in defending
the rights and interests of the South, but now he visioned divided
duties and loyalties. Pearce was opposed to secession, but he
equally deplored a union maintained by force. He said in the
Senate: "I look upon it secession as the most important interest of
my state of all others, that the Union should be maintained in its
integrity." He also spoke: "I have no idea that this Union can be
maintained or restored by force. Nor do I believe in the value of a
union, which can only be kept together by dint of a military
In his
home state of Maryland, Pearce denounced the arrests by the federal
authorities of prominent citizens, and he also denounced the
contempt displayed by the military personnel for the writ of habeas
corpus. Although he tried, he was not successful in ending those
forms of petty tyrannies.
health had been failing for some time, and the crisis of the day may
have helped to weaken him. March 24, 1862, was his last day in the
Senate chamber. He returned to his home in Kent County where he
lingered on for almost nine months, dying on Dec. 20, 1862. Thus
died an Eastern Shoremen of the "old school," a warm gentle man, who
was a brilliant conversationalist, and no politician in the ordinary
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CLEMSON, S.C. - Jim Clements has been named the 15th president of Clemson University.
Clemson Board of Trustees Chairman David Wilkins announced the board's selection Monday. Clements has been president of West Virginia University since 2009.
Clements succeeds Jim Barker, who announced in April that he planned to retire after 14 years and become an architecture professor at the school.
Wilkins says Clements is the right fit for Clemson, adding he understands the unique mission of land-grant universities. Clements is chairman-elect of the Council of Presidents of the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities.
Wilkins praised Clements' job at West Virginia University, saying the college set records in private fundraising, enrollment and research funding during his tenure.
Clements previously worked as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Towson University in Maryland.
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It's the time of year when the minds of top Ivy League undergraduates turn to interviews with investment banks and consulting firms. Here's a good interview question to test their smarts: What is the diamond planet worth? The answer: $26.9 nonillion ($26.9 followed by 30 zeros).
Sure, this is the first time in your life that you have ever thought of a nonillion. But you've surely thought of trillions before — and that's a one followed by 12 zeros. To get to a quadrillion you just at three more zeros and if you go up three each time, it only takes five more increments of three zeros to get you to a nonillion.
That's a big chunk of change. To put those $26.9 nonillion into perspective, think about the Earth's GDP – The World Bank estimated global GDP at about $70 trillion in 2011. The Diamond Planet is worth 384 quadrillion times more than Earth's GDP. And a mere .0182% of the Diamond Planet's raw diamonds would handily pay off what the Economist estimates is the $49 trillion in debt held by the world's governments.
The Diamond Planet is formally known as '55 Cancri e.' According to Reuters, it orbits a star in the constellation of Cancer and completes a rotation that takes Earth about 365 days in 18 hours.
The Diamond Planet's radius is double Earth's and its mass is eight times greater. The 3,900F planet is warmish — and is "covered in graphite and diamond rather than water and granite," according to Yale researcher, Nikku Madhusudhan.
But for an aspiring consultant trying to answer this brain teaser, a key fact about the Diamond Planet is that "at least a third of the planet's mass, the equivalent of about three Earth masses, could be diamond," according to Reuters.
You may not even be familiar with what consulting firms do but you have probably heard of one of consulting's alumni — Mitt Romney. Before he started Bain Capital, a leveraged buyout firm, he was a consultant at Bain & Co.
And when consulting firms hire undergraduate students, they screen out the ones who crack under pressure. One way they put candidates under pressure is to ask them to answer questions that require them to make calculations in their heads.
For example, one former student who interviewed at Bain's Singapore office was asked to estimate the annual revenues of "the world's largest observation wheel," the Singapore Flyer. To sail through that interview question, all you'd have to do is describe the details of the revenue formula you'd use, plug in reasonable assumptions, and calculate the correct answer in your head.
To the best of my knowledge, consulting firms have not used "What is the diamond planet worth?" in an interview yet. But it would certainly be a timely and difficult question to answer — and one that is of interest precisely because of pressure — a key ingredient in converting coal to diamonds (at least on Earth).
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Welcome to the Lock Haven University Student Resources page. LHU offers a number of resources for students to help them succeed throughout their collegiate career. Here at The Haven, we offer students abundant opportunities to embrace their possibilities and turn passions into lifelong dreams fulfilled. Throughout the path to success, obstacles will present themselves, and we offer the tools to help overcome barriers, understand procedure, and make your college experience the best it can be. Items located to the left will offer assistance in various areas. Browse the various areas and get to know the various resources available to you.
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According to this article(in Portuguese): http://www.techtudo.com.br/noticias/noticia/2014/02/windows-phone-ultrapassa-iphone-e-conquista-segunda-colocacao-no-brasil-diz-idc.html
Windows Phone has passed iPhone in market share in Brazil, doubling its presence in the country. As it stands now, the market share for the platforms are:
Android - 89%
Windows Phone - 6%
iOS (iPhone) - 4,7%
Blackberry - 0,3%
Whilst WP grew 3%, iOS fell 2,2% in the period. All data is from IDC.


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Visible and non-visible radiation reflected from an object is electronically detected and used to develop at least two separate false colored images of the object which are then combined to produce, in real-time, a composite false colored image highlighting those portions of the object having a high degree of reflectance in the non-visible spectrum.
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United States Patent [1 1 [111 3,748,471
Ross et al. July 24, 1973 [54] FALSE COLOR RADIANT ENERGY 3,405,268 10/1968 Brunton 250/833 H DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS Inventors: Donald S. Ross, Los Altos; Lisle H.
Roberts, Sunnyvale, both of Calif.
International Imaging Systems, Mountain View, Calif.
Filed: Sept. 24, 1971 Appl. No.: 183,378
References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS Bibbero 250/833 H X 3,610,932 10/1971 Morse et a1 250/833 HP X Primary Examiner-Archie R. Borchelt Attorney-Lowhurst & l-lamrick [57] ABSTRACT Visible and non-visible radiation reflected from an object is electronically detected and used to develop at least two separate false colored images of the object which are then combined to produce, in real-time, a composite false colored image highlighting those portions of the object having a high degree of reflectance in the non-visible spectrum.
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INVENTORS DONALD S. ROSS BY LISLE H.ROBERTS Wm, #M
ATTORNEYS FALSE COLOR RADIANT ENERGY DETECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for developing, on a real-time basis, a visible image of subject matter that highlights selected characteristics thereof which are otherwise invisible to the naked eye.
2. Discussion of the Prior Art It is well known that certain substances have a high reflectance for radiant energy having wavelengths lying outside of the visible spectrum. In some cases, the degree of the reflectance is also indicative of certain characteristics of the reflecting substances. For example, oil on water and certain atmospheric pollutants exhibit a high degree of reflectance of radiant energy having wavelengths in the near ultra-violet region of the spectrum, and plants, trees, algae and other substances, which depend for life on chlorophyllic photosynthesis reactions, have substantial reflection for incident radiation in the near infra-red spectral region.
Although the detection of non-visible radiation in the ultra-violet spectrum has found some application in the prior art, the use of infra-red photography has gained wide acceptance as a means of distinguishing real plant life from camouflage in military applications, as a means of differentiating between disiduous trees and evergreens in certain agricultural applications, and as a means of monitoring disease of growth conditions of certain plant life.
When recorded by photographic infra-red sensitive material the apparent brightness of the infra-red reflectance can be qualitatively and quantitatively measured in terms of the photographic densities developed in the film. The infra-red photo record, when suitably converted by dyes of colors contrasting with similar images obtained in other non-infra-red photo records, can be combined to produce a false colored composite image for use in differentiating plant species and other factors such as relative vigor, plant disease and general condi tion. Heretofore, it has been necessary to obtain these false colored images by using special mono-pak color films or by using a plurality of individual cameras filtered to simultaneously record the same object seen in different discrete spectral regions including photographic infra-red.
An informative discussion of the botanical uses of infra-red photography can be found in the book by Walter Clark entitled Photography By Infra-Red; John Wiley 8:. Sons, Second Edition 1947, pp. 253-265. A discussion of light reflectivity at the blue end of the spectrum can be found in the publication by D.S. Ross, 1970, entitled Blue Multispectral Region in Aerospace Imaging," Proceedings, Annual Technical Symposium, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, pp. 149-155. These publications are hereby expressly incorporated by references into this disclosure.
A serious disadvantage of using photography as an investigative tool is that real-time inspection of a particular object can not be made, and it is only after subsequent development and reproduction of the photographic images that this means can be used to advan tage. This, of course, substantially limits the effectiveness of the detection since conditions may change substantially between the time the photograph is taken and the time that they are available for interpretation.
SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for enabling selected subject matter to be inspected on a real-time basis to detect characteristics which are otherwise invisible to the naked eye. Briefly, the present invention includes a method and apparatus whereby radiant energy in the visible and non-visible spectrum reflected from an object is photo-electrically detected and used to develop a composite false colored image of the object which highlights those portions of the object having high reflectance for certain non-visible radiant energy.
An advantage of the present invention is that realtime inspection can be made of selected subject matter to immediately determine the presence of polluting conditions, such as oil on water or certain gases in the atmosphere, or foilage disease or stage of growth. In addition, the detected conditions can be electrically recorded for subsequent re-evaluation or comparison.
These and other advantages of the present invention will no doubt become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art after having read the detailed disclosure of the present invention which is illustrated in the several figures of the drawing.
IN THE DRAWING FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically illustrating the relative color sensitivity characteristic of the average human eye and the reflectance characteristics of certain green plant life.
FIG. 2 is a diagram schematically illustrating a method in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating one embodiment for implementing a method in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an alternative embodiment for implementing a method in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of still another alternative embodiment for implementing a method in accordance with the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT Referring now to the diagram shown in FIG. I of the drawing, curve A illustrates the relative color sensitivity characteristic of an average human eye under bright illumination, while curves B and C illustrate respectively, the percentages of incident radiant energy reflected internally and externally at the various wavelengths by green plant life. The curves B and C used herein to illustrate generally the character of the reflectance of healthy green plant life are those of a healthy maple leaf. Similar curves for other types of leaves may be found in the above referenced Clark publication.
When sunlight falls on a leaf, part of the incident radiation is reflected externally by the upper surface, part of it is reflected internally by the internal structure of the leaf, part of it is absorbed by the materials of the leaf, and the rest is transmitted through the leaf. As can be seen from curves B and C, the reflectance is typically at a minimum in the blue region of the spectrum, rises in the green region, and then drops to another minimum in the dark end of the visible spectrum. I-Iowever, beyond the visible spectrum the leaf exhibits a very high reflecting power, particularly in the near infra-red region. Although curves B and C are herein considered as typical of healthy green plant life, the reflectance characteristics do vary somewhat from one kind of leaf to another clue to the different physical structures of the different species of leaves. The reflectance characteristics also vary depending upon the time of the year, the conditions under which the plant grows, and the lighting and other conditions under which the reflectance measurements are made.
The rather sharp increase in the reflectance of radiation having wavelengths above 700 nanometers makes possible the prior art photographic detectiom methods discussed above, as well as the electronic detection method which will now be discussed generally by referring to FIG. 2 of the drawing, and then more specifically with regard to certain presently preferred embodiments shown schematically in subsequent figures.
Radiation from a broad-band source, such as the sun, which is indicated at 10, or a suitable artificial source such as a tungsten filament lamp, cast onto plant life such as the tree indicated at 12, will be reflected, and if collected by suitable means including the filters 11 and 13, can be used to develop black and white images 14 and 16 whose tonal shades are directly related to radiation in a visible band of the spectrum and radiation in a non-visible band of the spectrum, respectively. As may be deduced from the brief discussion above, the tonal characteristics of the respective images will differ depending upon the reflectance characteristics of the tree 12. For example, if image 14 is made in response to visible radiation limited to a narrow band in the red portion of the spectrum, there may be little difference in the tonal shading of the image if the tree appears healthy to the naked eye. However, if one portion (a) of the tree 12 is actually quite healthy, but another portion (b thereof, is in fact unhealthy, even though its appearance differs little from part (a), then the image 16 will not appear to be of uniform tonal quality. Since healthy plant life reflects infra-red radiation substantially more than non-healthy plant life, the portion (a') of image 16 would be expected to be lighter in tone than the portion (b).
Although a simple visual comparison of image 16 to tree 12 might be of some assistance in determining the condition of the tree, such comparison would require the alternate viewing of the tree and image, and would be somewhat inconvenient. A single composite image including the data contained in both of the images 14 and 16, while still allowing differentiation of the two sets of data would be much easier to view and interpret.
Thus, in accordance with the present invention, means such as the filter 15 is provided for tinting the image 14 with one visible color, such as green, and means such as the filter 17 is provided for tinting the image 16 with another visible color, such as red, and the two colored images are then combined to form the composite false colored image 18. In the illustrated example, the portion (a") of image 18, which corresponds to the more healthy portion (a) of tree 12 would tend to appear more red in color than the portion (b") corresponding to the less healthy portion (b), which would tend to appear more green (or perhaps brown) in color. The color sensitivity of the image could, of course, be varied by adjusting the relative intensities of the individual images used to form the composite image.
In the interest of simplicity, the diagram of FIG. 2 illustrates a single tree 12. However, the present invention may also be used to view, perhaps from an aerial vantage point, a large number of trees or other plants so as to determine the relative growth or health characteristics of the plants within the various sections of a field, grove, forest, etc.
A simplified embodiment for implementing the present invention is illustrated in FIG. 3, and incudes a wide-band television camera 20 including a video tube having a spectral sensitivity spanning the visible and certain non-visible wavelengths. An example of a video tube having a spectral response to radiation in the visible as well as the near IR wavelengths is the Tivicon Image Tube, manufactured by the Texas Instrument Corporation of Dallas, Tex. A filter wheel 24 including alternately disposed filter segments 26 and 28 is positioned near the input optics 22 of camera 20 so as to alternately admit radiation in a visible region, eg., of red wavelength, and radiation in non-visible region of the spectrum, eg., of near IR wavelength, as it is rotated. With filter wheel 24 appropriately synchronized with the scanning rate of camera 20, electrical signals will be developed on line 30 which alternately correspond to images developed by visible and infra-red radiation reflected from-object 12.
The signals developed by camera 20 are fed into an electrical processing unit 32 which converts them into a form suitable for driving a black and white monitor 33 including a CRT viewing tube 34 having a display face 36. Tube 34 is positioned so that it may be viewed by an observer at 38 through a second filter wheel 40. Filter wheel 40 also includes alternating filter sections 42 and 44, but these filters are designed to color the images viewed by the observer in contrasting colors such as red and green. Filter wheels 24 and 40 are so aligned with respect to camera 20 and CRT 34 and driven in synchronism with each other such that when radiation in the IR band is admitted to camera 20, the red filter section 42 of wheel 40 is disposed in front of the face 36 of CRT 34, and when radiation in the red band is admitted to camera 20, the green filter section 44 is disposed in front of CRT face 36. Filter wheels 24 and 40 are driven by a common drive means, such as the motor 46, in the response to drive signals developed by the electrical processing unit 32.
In operation, with filter wheels 24 and 40 turning fast enough to project images at a rate above the perceptive rate of the human eye, i.e., 30 images or more per second, the effect is to provide a single composite image for view by the observer. This false colored image will correspond to the image 18, mentioned above with regard to FIG. 2, and will provide a means of inspecting the reflectance characteristics of object 12 and thus evaluating its condition.
Turning now to FIG. 4 of the drawing, an alternative embodiment in accordance with the present invention is illustrated in which three television cameras 50, 52 and 54 are used to develop electrical signals for driving the three ion guns 56, 58 and 60 of a conventional color television receiver tube 55. Beam splitting mirrors 62 and 64, and a reflector 66, or other suitable means, are used to direct reflected radiation from the object 12 into the input lenses of the three television cameras.
Through the use of filters 70, 72 and 74 in the input optics of the respective cameras, the radiation to which each camera responds is selectively limited to a particular portions of the spectrum. For example, filter 70 permits only radiation in the near lR portion of the spectrum to enter camera 50, filter 72 permits only radiation in the red portion of the spectrum to enter camera 52, and filter 74 permits only radiation in the green portion of the spectrum to enter camera 54. The video tubes used in the respective cameras 50, 52 and 54 must therefore be selected to have good sensitivity to the particular input radiation. Whereas the well known Plumicon or Vidicon tubes may be used in cameras 52 and 54, a Tivicon image tube, or its equivalent having good near lR response should be used in camera 50. For system uniformity, the cameras 50, 52 and 54 may be ofa single type, such as the Standard [V Model manufactured by the Sierra Scientific Corporation of Mountain View, Calif, since such camera is adapted for use with many of the standard video camera tubes.
The output signals developed by the several cameras 50, 52 and 54 are input to suitable processing electronics 76 which develop the required signals for driving the red, green and blue ion guns of tube 55. Processing electronics 76 may also develop a suitable output for driving a video recorder 78 for storing the image viewed in real-time on the face 80 of tube 55 by an observer at 82. Altemately, the recorder 78 may be of a type which photographically records the image developed on tube face 80. In such case, a suitable beam splitter 84 and reflector 86 would be provided.
Note that since this embodiment develops a false colored image of the object 12 using the three primary colors, red, green and blue, the system might be thought of as having the capability of shifting the eye sensitivity curve A of FIG. 1 toward the red end of the spectrum, such as is indicated by the dashed curve D. Where the apparatus is used to inspect green plant life, it will be appreciated that because of the nature of the curves B and C illustrated in FIG. 1, those portions of the object which exhibit healthy growth characteristics will be predominantly red in the image developed on tube face 80.
In FIG. 5 of the drawing still another embodiment of the present invention is schematically illustrated. This embodiment includes a source 88 of artificial illumination and a viewer 89 which may be battery powered so as to make it suitable for certain portable applications. Viewer 89 includes a high resolution infra-red viewing device 90, such as the Model IRV-7002 manufactured by the Electro-Physics Corporation of Nutley, New Jersey. The input optics of device 90 includes a filter 92 for selectively admitting only that radiation from object 12 which is in a band of wavelengths in the near lR region. The radiation input through beam splitter 102 and filter 92 is projected onto the photo-cathode of a converter tube which reproduces an IR image" of the object in visible form on a phosphor screen at the output end of the device, and light from the phosphor screen is imaged through output optics 94, including a suitable color filter 96, for view by an observer at 98.
In order to provide a second visible image" of object 12 for combination with the IR image, the beam splitter 102, reflector 104, suitable optics 106, reflector 108, and half-silvered mirror 110 are suitably positioned to project an image of object 12 through eyepiece 100 in registry with the IR image. The resultant light rays passing through eyepiece combine to produce a composite false colored image similar to that produced in the previously described embodiments. As in the previous embodiments, the composite false colored image viewed by the observer at 98 will indicate those portions of object 12 having different lR reflectivity characteristics than other portions. Apparatus such as this are highly useful to foresters, nurserymen and others concerned with making on-the-spot evaluations of plant growth or disease conditions.
The present invention may be implemented using any suitable real-time image generating apparatus capable of developing several spectrally different images of the same object which can be either electrically or optically combined into a single composite image that accentuates certain characteristics of the object which would otherwise be undetectable by the naked eye. The recent development of silicon target video tubes, such as the Tivicon image tube, has substantially contributed to making the implementation of the present invention practical. Using a device such as the Tivicon image tube, which is responsive to radiation outside the visible spectrum, in combination with other prior art imaging devices, separate images of radiation in the visible and non-visible spectrum can be manipulated and combined, as described above, to develop a composite image of a type that makes it relatively simple to detect phenomena which could heretofore only be detected using laborious and expensive prior art photographic techniques. 1
Since in accordance with the present invention, the
several images are combined and simultaneously dis-' played to the user, even as the camera is pointed at and moved around to view different parts of a scene or object, the user may change spectral filters on one or more of the viewing cameras or display devices to emphasize and enhance the image to facilitate interpretation thereof. Moreover, control over contrast and image brightness can be exercised by the user both in the camera system and display system as a further aid to image interpretation.
Furthermore, in accordance with the present invention, where two or more television cameras are operating in different spectral regions, the video signals from each camera may be mixed to reduce redundant spectral information which is similar in the different video camera channels. This may be accomplished by reversing the polarity of one video signal relative to another and then adding the two algebraically. Thus, when a positive image is added to a negative image, both being in different spectral bands, and when the relative scene contrasts are matched, all reflectance which is common to both will be cancelled and the remaining video signal will then represent the difference in the spectral reflectance. Using this technique, which may be analogized to photographic masking processes, the identification and discrimination of chlorophyll can be improved by removing distracting image information from the scene.
In either the aforementioned masking mode or in the conventional operation, the video signal from one or more of the cameras may be pre-processed before display by using digital or other means for converting preselected video signal levels in order to form displayed contours representing stepwise relative or quantitative reflectance levels in the infra-red record or its associated images from other spectral channels.
Although one of the primary advantages of the present invention is its ability to enable an object to be examined in real-time, various types of apparatus for recording the displayed images can also be embodied in the system. For example, video recordings can be made for later playback or analysis by computer techniques, or the data can be photographically recorded on either color or black-and-white film for later interpretation or use.
Whereas the present invention has been disclosed above in terms of specific embodiments, it is contemplated that certain modifications thereof will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art after having read the above disclosure. Accordingly, this disclosure is not intended to be limiting and the appended claims are to be interpreted as covering all such modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.
What is claimed is:
l. A false color detection method comprising the steps of:
photo-electrically detecting radiant energy in the visible spectrum emanating from an object and developing a first electrical signal commensurate therewith;
photo-electrically detecting radiant energy in the non-visible spectrum emanating from said object and developing a second electrical signal commensurate therewith;
converting said first electrical signal into a first image of a first color;
converting said second electrical signal into a second image of a second color; and
combining said first and second images to develop a composite visible image in real time from which certain characteristics of said object can be determined.
2. A false color detection method as recited in claim 1 wherein at least said second color is a false color.
3. A false color detection method as recited in claim 1 wherein the detected non-visible radiant energy has wavelengths greater than 700 nanometers.
4. A false color detection method as recited in claim 1 and further including the step of illuminating said object with visible and non-visible radiation developed by an artificial source.
5. A false color detection method comprising the steps of:
illuminating an object with radiant energy having wavelengths in both the visible and non-visible portions of the spectrum; photo-electrically detecting visible radiant energy reflected from said object and developing a first electrical signal commensurate therewith;
photo-electrically detecting non-visible radiant energy reflected from said object and developing a second electrical signal commensurate therewith; and
converting said first and second signals into a false color composite visible image in real time highlighting certain non-visible characteristics of said objects.
6. A false color detection method as recited in claim wherein the detected non-visible radiant energy has wavelengths greater than 700 nanometers.
7. A false color detection method as recited in claim 5 wherein said composite image is formed by convert- 5 ing said first electrical signal into a first image of a first color and converting said second electrical signal into a second image of a second color, and then combining said first and second images.
8. A method of inspecting plant life in the presence of natural illumination to determine particular characteristics thereof comprising the steps of:
photo-electrically detecting radiant energy reflected from the plant life having wavelengths of less than 700 nanometers and developing a first electrical signal commensurate therewith; photo-electrically detecting radiant energy reflected from the plant life having wavelengths of greater than 700 nanometers and developing a second electrical signal commensurate therewith;
developing first and second different colored images of the plant life from said first and second electrical signals, I respectively; and
combining said first and second images to develop a false color composite visible image in real time of the plant life.
9. Apparatus for detecting certain characteristics of an object, comprising:
means responsive to non-visible radiant energy emanating from the object and operative to develop a first visible image commensurate therewith, said first image having a selected false color;
means responsive to visible radiant energy emanating from said object and operative to develop a second visible image of said object; and
means responsive to said first and second images and operative to develop a false colored visible composite image of said object in real time from which said characteristic can be determined.
10. Apparatus for the viewing in real time the visible and non-visible radiation from an object comprising means for converting the visible radiation into a first black and white image,
means for converting the non-visible radiation into a second black and white image,
means for converting said first black and white image into a first false color image, means for converting said second black and white image into a second false color image, and means for combining said first and second false color images into a composite color image visible in real time.
11. Apparatus as claimed in claim 10 wherein said means for converting said visible and non-visible images into black and white images includes a television camera spanning the visible and non-visible spectrum, means for operating said television camera in timeshare manner to produce alternately said two images, and means coupled to said latter means for synchronizing said combining means with the alternating black and white images produced by said television camera. 10! t 8 t
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