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Pioneers of Radar [Hardcover]

Sir Bernard Lovell (Foreword), Colin Latham (Author), Anne Stobbs (Author, Preface), Colin Lathem (Introduction)

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Publication Date: 22 April 1999 | ISBN-10: 075092120X | ISBN-13: 978-0750921206 | Edition: First Edition

In 1935 a simple demonstration in the Midlands of the reflection of radio waves from an overflying aircraft led to the development of a war-winning device - radar. This volume tells the story of a team of mainly young scientists and engineers who played a vital part in enabling Britain to outwit the onslaught of the Nazi bombers during World War II. It reveals how they fought the radar war-within-a-war, providing solutions to each new threat posed by the enemy. They were civilians working strictly under the Official Secrets Act for the whole of their wartime service. But ordinary civilians they were not; nor was the team they made up anything other than extraordinary in its combined brain power, its continual need for improvisation and its outright dedication to the changing needs of the services at home and overseas. This team was known successively by a number of titles until in November 1940 it acquired and retained the name by which it was best known throughout the war: TRE - the Telecommunications Research Establishment.

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } In 1935 a simple demonstration in the Midlands of the reflection of radio waves from an overflying aircraft led to the development of a war-winning device - radar. This volume tells the story of a team of mainly young scientists and engineers who played a vital part in enabling Britain to outwit the onslaught of the Nazi bombers during World War II. It reveals how they fought the radar war-within-a-war, providing solutions to each new threat posed by the enemy. They were civilians working strictly under the Official Secrets Act for the whole of their wartime service. But ordinary civilians they were not; nor was the team they made up anything other than extraordinary in its combined brain power, its continual need for improvisation and its outright dedication to the changing needs of the services at home and overseas. This team was known successively by a number of titles until in November 1940 it acquired and retained the name by which it was best known throughout the war: TRE - the Telecommunications Research Establishment.

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd; First Edition edition (22 April 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 075092120X
ISBN-13: 978-0750921206
Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 17.9 x 2.2 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,074,511 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #67 in Books > Science & Nature > Engineering & Technology > Electronics & Communications Engineering > Radar

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4.0 out of 5 stars VERY informative, but a slow read... 11 May 2000

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I found this book very informative- much more so than "The Invention That Changed the World", by Robert Buderi. This book gave the hard facts of the history and invention of radar- information I needed for a research paper- but was a slow read. I liked that the book focused more on the historical than scientific nature of radar. I would recommend this book to anyone who is doing research or who would love to learn the history of one of the most important inventions used in World War II.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Oral history of early British radar development at TRE 10 May 2003

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It is an oral history of British Radar development at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE), with emphasis on the period up to 1942. As such, it shares both the strongpoints and pitfalls of this type of books:it presents many different points of view, (in fact, the book is to be commended by its inclusiveness, as not only engineers and scientists in the development area were contacted, but also field technical people and even fitters), and is full of interesting and sometimes revealing anedoctes. On the other hand, the reminiscences have different levels of value and interest, and have, as usual, their fair share of innacuracies, not always pointed out by the editors.

All in all a worthwhile book for those interested in the early history of radar on the British side, both with and without a technical background. Also of interest for those involved in the organizational aspect of R&D structures, as an example of a (in the beginning)very loose but highly effective research organization. It helps, however, to have a historical background to the book. If you are looking for an entry-level book on radar history, it is better to turn to Guerlac or Brown.

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