The invention that changed the world: the story of radar from war to peace
BUDERI Robert
The invention that changed the world: the story of radar from war to peace - London: Little, Brown, 1997 - 575p.
Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Brimming with telling anecdotes and suprising revelations, this book brings to life the exciting, largely untold story of the scientist who not only created a winning weapon but also changed our world for ever.In 1940 a team of British Scientists arrived in Washington, bearing Britain's most closely guarded technological secrets, including the cavity magnetron, a revolutionary new source of microwave energy. Its arrival triggered the most dramatic mobilisation of science in history, as America's top scientists enlisted to convert the invention into a potent military weapon.
0316907154 (hbk.)
MICROWAVE RADARS
The invention that changed the world: the story of radar from war to peace - London: Little, Brown, 1997 - 575p.
Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. Brimming with telling anecdotes and suprising revelations, this book brings to life the exciting, largely untold story of the scientist who not only created a winning weapon but also changed our world for ever.In 1940 a team of British Scientists arrived in Washington, bearing Britain's most closely guarded technological secrets, including the cavity magnetron, a revolutionary new source of microwave energy. Its arrival triggered the most dramatic mobilisation of science in history, as America's top scientists enlisted to convert the invention into a potent military weapon.
0316907154 (hbk.)
MICROWAVE RADARS