- Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36
…d War II** when driving at night became even more perilous because of the government-imposed blackouts to thwart German bombers. The company accelerated its expansion after the the war and eventually occupied a 20 acre site in Boothtown. At its p…
- Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51
…hey 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 t…
- Stereo — 2023-09-23 15:56:38
…em throughout the spring and early summer of 1942. It was during this series of tests on 7 June 1942, that the Halifax bomber carrying the only prototype H2S system crashed at Welsh Bicknor. Alan Blumlein and two colleagues from EMI, along with …