Cone of Silence
Cone of silence may refer to:
Fictional devices
- Cone of silence (Dune), a fictional device used for privacy in the 1965 novel Dune
- Cone of Silence (Get Smart), a fictional device from the 1960s American television comedy series Get Smart
- In the 1956 Arthur C. Clarke novel The City and the Stars the Central Computer creates a cone of silence to telepathically isolate Alvin and the robot.
Literature and film
- Cone of Silence, 1959 novel by Arthur David Beaty
- Cone of Silence (film), a 1960 British aviation drama based on the novel
- The Cone of Silence, a booklet of poetry written by British-Canadian poet Todd Swift (born 1966)
Science
- Cone of silence (navigation), an element of aircraft navigation in the 1930s and 1940s
- Cone of silence (radar), the area unable to be "seen" by a radar antenna
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.