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  1. Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51
    …ignal was seen from the bomber. Most importantly, the prime minister, **Stanley Baldwin**, was kept quietly informed of radar's progress. == Increasing the Range == Only two weeks later Wilkins left the Radio Research Station with a small party…
    … Swansea, [[Wales]]) to start further research at Orfordness. On** April 2, 1935** Watson-Watt was granted a patent for radar. By June they were detecting aircraft at 17 miles, which was enough to stop all work on competing sound-based detection…
    …e located on the coast near Orfordness, and Bawdsey Research Station was set up there to become the main centre for all radar research. They soon conducted "full scale" tests of a system that would soon be known as **Chain Home**, attempting to …
    …intercept a bomber by radar direction. The tests were a massive failure, with the fighter only seeing the bomber after it had passed its target. …
  2. Air Traffic Control — 2023-10-07 10:51:35
    …vide a safety zone for air traffic to operate in. Distances vary but aircraft that are flying along the airways under [[radar]] surveillance are kept five nautical miles apart horizontally or at least 1,000 feet vertically. == Other fame == Cro…
    …930. == Links == More info: [[http://www.nats.aero/about-us/what-we-do/atc-explained| NATS]] {{Tag ids="Radio flight radar traffic"}} …
  3. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
    … the hovercraft**".) == War Years == During the war years Cockerell worked with an elite team at Marconi to develop [[RADAR]], a development which Churchill believed had a significant effect on the outcome of the Second World War, and Cockerel…
  4. Vacuum Tube — 2023-09-23 15:57:19
    …s of what we call electronics technology today. This invention made possible or improved: ~[[Radio]] ~[[Television]] ~[[Radar]] ~Sound recording and reproduction ~Telephone networks, ~Analogue and Digital computers == War Needs == The outbrea…
    …ces came into their own as they were needed for electronic equipment of all sorts from radio receivers to transmitters, radar sets, electronic warfare equipment, telecommunications repeaters and much more. {{Tag ids="Valve Electronic Tube Therm…
  5. Stereo — 2023-09-23 15:56:38
    …War effort == EMI and Alan Blumlein were part of the team that developed and tested the circuitry of the H2S air-ground radar system throughout the spring and early summer of 1942. It was during this series of tests on 7 June 1942, that the Hal…
  6. LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09
    …*George William Gray** was born in Denny, [[Scotland]] 4 September 1926. In 1972 a team led by George Gray at the Royal Radar Establishment developed a new type of **cyanobiphenyl**. This resulting liquid crystal was less viscous, thereby provid…
    …enge to find an alternative to the shadow mask colour TV tube. This challenge was taken up by Cyril Hilsum at the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE) in **Malvern** [[Worcestershire]], to explore whether the discovery by US researchers that a thin l…
  7. Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
    …suaded to join the war. The **Tizard Mission** as it was known, involved //giving// the USA **[[Jet_Engine|Jet]]**, **[[Radar]]**, **VT fuse**, the **Magnetron** (that went on to power microwave ovens) and [[Split_the_Atom| Nuclear Fission]] to…

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