Name: TED】馬爾科姆-格拉德威爾:諾登彈幕的奇聞（馬爾科姆-格拉德威爾：《諾登彈幕的奇聞》）。 (【TED】Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight (Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:27:16.000Z
Duration: 15 min 1 s

And so many people, I guess, watch those videos.

People have been coming up to me ever since

to ask me questions about spaghetti sauce,

which is a wonderful thing in the short term --

and try and put spaghetti sauce behind me.

The theme of this morning's session is Things We Make.

今天早上這部分的主題是我們創造的東西．

who made one of the most precious objects

And Carl Norden is very firmly in the former camp.

Carl Norden是堅定地屬於第一個陣營．

He goes to the Federal Polytech in Zurich.

In fact, one of his classmates is a young man named Lenin

他就讀於苏黎士联邦理工学院．

事實上，他有一個同學名字 Lenin

to break small, expensive, exquisite objects.

And I mean that in its fullest sense of the word.

and he has a very, very small, important mustache;

他有一個特別特別小但很重要的小鬍子；

and he has very strong feelings about alternating current;

and he feels like a suntan is a sign of moral weakness;

他覺得被太陽晒黑是一種道德上軟弱的表現；

sitting in his mother's kitchen in Zurich for hours

他母親在蘇黎士的廚房裡完成的，

Carl Norden emigrates to the United States

And he becomes obsessed with the question

that was obviously a really difficult problem.

You've got a plane that's thousands of feet up in the air,

你有一架飛在幾千英尺高空的飛機,

and you're trying to drop an object, a bomb,

你試圖想扔下一個東西,一個炮彈,

in the face of all kinds of winds and cloud cover

想讓它擊中一個靜止不動的物體

moving up to the First World War and between the wars,

在第一次世界大戰以及在兩次戰爭中間,

But Carl Norden is really the one who cracks the code.

And he comes up with this incredibly complicated device.

但Carl Norden幾乎就成了那個攻克難題的人.

It's called the Norden Mark 15 bombsight.

And it has all kinds of levers and ball-bearings

名字叫作Norden 牌15 型投彈瞄準器.

這上面有各種各樣的杠桿,球軸承

is he makes the bombardier take this particular object,

because they're in the Plexiglas cone of the bomber,

and then they plug in the altitude of the plane,

把它放在炸彈的有機玻璃椎的范圍內,

the speed of the plane, the speed of the wind

And the bombsight will tell him when to drop the bomb.

然後投彈瞄準器就會告訴投彈手什麼時候放炸彈.

But he said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight,

he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel

他說, 如果用他的這種投彈瞄準儀,

他可以把炸彈從兩萬英尺高的高空

TED】馬爾科姆-格拉德威爾:諾登彈幕的奇聞（馬爾科姆-格拉德威爾：《諾登彈幕的奇聞》）。 (【TED】Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight (Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight))

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TED】馬爾科姆-格拉德威爾:諾登彈幕的奇聞（馬爾科姆-格拉德威爾：《諾登彈幕的奇聞》）。 (【TED】Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight (Malcolm Gladwell: The strange tale of the Norden bombsight))

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