Shipboard storage can be accomplished by the use of 

 six compact storage reels, each accommodating 1000 feet of 

 cable (cable connectors at 1000-foot intervals permitting 

 such breakdown) or by coiling the cable in 6000-foot-capa- 

 city stowage wells. 



A system employing binary coding to permit sequential 

 sampling of the sensing gages was designed only to demonstrate 

 the feasibility of transmitting data from a large number of 

 sensors with the selected wire size. This technique provides 

 for sampling 128 sensors with only ten conductors. The number 

 of sensors may be doiibled by each additional wire. 



The various components are described in greater detail 

 in later sections. 



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