3 Mar
2018
3 Mar
'18
12:35 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 12:46 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I dunno about these historical accounts.
I was watching a PBS program about RADAR and the magnetron was made out
to be a super-secret device, yet there's a clear explanation of it in my
1942 "Radio Handbook".
--Chuck
For a non-sensationalized accounting that tracks developments, and personalities, over the
course of many decades of developments and spin-offs, try:
The Invention That Changed the World:
How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technical
Revolution
(1998; Touchstone; 576 pp)
Authored by Robert Buderi, former technology editor for Business Week.
Yes, quite an over-the-top title ... but the content isn't that way at all, IMO. It
stacks up quite well against academic treatises on related topics (e.g., Whirlwind)
published by MIT Press.
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paul