TY  - BOOK
AU  - BUDERI Robert
TI  - The invention that changed the world: the story of radar from war to peace
SN  - 0316907154 (hbk.)
PY  - 1997///
CY  - London
PB  - Little, Brown
KW  - MICROWAVE RADARS
N2  - 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
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