Army Signal Corps

At the Teheran airport there was no one to meet me, and the telephone operator, a soldier of the Iranian Army signal corps, spoke only Persian. I rode downtown in a taxi and a bad humor. The latter was not improved when I reached the hotel to find that I had a large dark room, with the toilet on the floor below and the bathroom on the floor above. Also I recalled that I had been specifically warned by George Polk not to use water from Teheran taps, not to drink it or brush my Teeth with it or even let it get into my eyes. I began to be unhappy. 

From the very beginning of modem fuel cell development, potential applications for military purposes were an important driving force and source of financing of this R D work. In the early 1960s, for example, the work of General Electric on membrane-type fuel cells that led to the power plants for Gemini spacecraft was financed, in part, by the US Navy s Bureau of Ships (Electronic Division) and by the US Army Signal Corps. 

Workman, E, J, Dept, of the Army Project 399-07-022, Signal Corps Project 24-172B-1, Final Report, New Mexico Inst, Mining and Technology, Socorro, 1951. 

The Signal Corps was responsible for the production of film materials of all sorts. See George Raynor Thompson, Dixie R. Harris, Pauline M. Oakes, and Dulany Terrett, The Signal Corps The Test, a volume in UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II. Chapter XIII. 

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