Cone of silence may refer to:
Fictional devices
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Cone of silence (''Dune''), a fictional device used for privacy in the 1965 novel ''Dune''
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Cone of Silence (''Get Smart)'', a fictional device from the 1960s American television comedy series ''Get Smart''
* In the 1956
Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 191719 March 2008) was an English science-fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film '' 2001: A Spac ...
novel
The City and the Stars
''The City and the Stars'' is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1956. This novel is a complete rewrite of his earlier ''Against the Fall of Night'', Clarke's first novel, which had been published in '' Star ...
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
Arthur David Beaty (28 March 1919 – 4 December 1999) was a British writer, pilot and psychologist notable as a pioneer in the field of human factors, now an integral branch of aviation medicine, which he argued played a central role in aviatio ...
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''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
Stanley Todd Swift (born April 8, 1966), is a British-Canadian poet, screenwriter, university teacher, editor, critic, and publisher based in the United Kingdom.
Background
Swift was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and raised in Saint-Lambe ...
(born 1966)
Science
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Cone of silence (navigation), an element of aircraft navigation in the 1930s and 1940s
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Cone of silence (radar)
In telecommunications, antenna blind cone (sometimes called a cone of silence or antenna blind spot) is the volume of space, usually approximately conical with its vertex at the antenna, that cannot be scanned by an antenna because of limitations ...
, the area unable to be "seen" by a radar antenna
Other
* "The Cone of Silence", a song on the 1986 Yo La Tengo album ''
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