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Radar | Welcome to Tuxedo Park | S33-E1
Manage episode 266066666 series 2287713
What technology won WWII? Most people would say the atomic bomb, but the real answer is radar.
As a small island country, vulnerable to aerial attacks, England took the lead in developing radar in the 1930s. But the early radar systems were too massive to fit into planes, where they would be of most use in the fight against the Germans. At the heart of the problem was a technological catch-22. Smaller radar systems were, by definition, less powerful.
Or so everyone thought, until a mismatched pair of brothers in Northern California decided to take a crack at creating a new kind of radar...
This is episode one of our three-part series on radar, “Welcome to Tuxedo Park.”
Listen ad-free on Wondery+ here.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
295 episodes
Manage episode 266066666 series 2287713
What technology won WWII? Most people would say the atomic bomb, but the real answer is radar.
As a small island country, vulnerable to aerial attacks, England took the lead in developing radar in the 1930s. But the early radar systems were too massive to fit into planes, where they would be of most use in the fight against the Germans. At the heart of the problem was a technological catch-22. Smaller radar systems were, by definition, less powerful.
Or so everyone thought, until a mismatched pair of brothers in Northern California decided to take a crack at creating a new kind of radar...
This is episode one of our three-part series on radar, “Welcome to Tuxedo Park.”
Listen ad-free on Wondery+ here.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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