Comments on: 500 dots on the radar screen http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/09/500-dots-on-the-radar-screen/ Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:29:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jevon MacDonald http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/09/500-dots-on-the-radar-screen/comment-page-1/#comment-1012 Jevon MacDonald Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:17:21 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/09/500-dots-on-the-radar-screen/#comment-1012 Meant to include: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radar Meant to include: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radar

]]> By: Jevon MacDonald http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/09/500-dots-on-the-radar-screen/comment-page-1/#comment-1011 Jevon MacDonald Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:14:10 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/09/500-dots-on-the-radar-screen/#comment-1011 Andrew: I did think hard about this before posting, so I took some time to research this on the web and to ask a historian friend of mine before I did. My understanding is that, while is it popularly debated, the British did have the first integrated and operational radar in World War II that was both part invention and part rediscovery of older research, much of it German research. The British were also the first to (by mistake) miniturize Radar for use on interceptor planes as well as to increase it's accuracy through the development of the 10cm cavity magnetron. So, while it is fun to debate the origin and myth around radar, it doesn't really change the lesson, or debatably the fact, of my post. The British gifted this to the Americans who did not previously have the capability. Had I debated that the War in Europe was won based on british invention of the radar, we might be in far more murky territory. IMHO Andrew:

I did think hard about this before posting, so I took some time to research this on the web and to ask a historian friend of mine before I did. My understanding is that, while is it popularly debated, the British did have the first integrated and operational radar in World War II that was both part invention and part rediscovery of older research, much of it German research.

The British were also the first to (by mistake) miniturize Radar for use on interceptor planes as well as to increase it’s accuracy through the development of the 10cm cavity magnetron.

So, while it is fun to debate the origin and myth around radar, it doesn’t really change the lesson, or debatably the fact, of my post. The British gifted this to the Americans who did not previously have the capability.

Had I debated that the War in Europe was won based on british invention of the radar, we might be in far more murky territory. IMHO

]]> By: Andrew B. http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/09/500-dots-on-the-radar-screen/comment-page-1/#comment-1007 Andrew B. Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:56:06 +0000 http://fastforwardblog.com/2007/02/09/500-dots-on-the-radar-screen/#comment-1007 It is a popular, but decidedly debunked, myth that the British invented radar during WWII. It was developed by a variety of individuals over at least 50 if not 75 years. However, if anyone should be credited with the first functional deployed radar system, it would have to be the Germans. From John Schneider's (of Lockheed Martin) History of Radar Some popularized myths concerning British/German radar prior to World War II: – The British invented radar and scientist Sir Robert Watson-Watt was the man responsible for its invention – The Germans had no little or no pre-war radar capabilities and did not grasp its importance ! Realities: – Huelsmeyer had developed and patented the first radar device in 1904 – In 1934, Dr. Rudolph Kuhnold (head of German Navy signals research) “rediscovers” radar – Germany actually had more sophisticated technology leading up to WWII more here http://math.la.asu.edu/~kuang/LM/030902-Radar_History10.pdf (and plenty of other places on the web) It is a popular, but decidedly debunked, myth that the British invented radar during WWII. It was developed by a variety of individuals over at least 50 if not 75 years. However, if anyone should be credited with the first functional deployed radar system, it would have to be the Germans.

From John Schneider’s (of Lockheed Martin) History of Radar

Some popularized myths concerning British/German radar
prior to World War II:
– The British invented radar and scientist Sir Robert Watson-Watt was
the man responsible for its invention
– The Germans had no little or no pre-war radar capabilities and did
not grasp its importance
! Realities:
– Huelsmeyer had developed and patented the first radar device in
1904
– In 1934, Dr. Rudolph Kuhnold (head of German Navy signals
research) “rediscovers” radar
– Germany actually had more sophisticated technology leading up to
WWII

more here http://math.la.asu.edu/~kuang/LM/030902-Radar_History10.pdf (and plenty of other places on the web)

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