[inforoots] "Radar History Update" 1 Nov, Naval Postgraduate School

[Curtis A. Jones]

This notice came through the IEEE.  Some readers might
find the talk interesting.  Curtis

from
http://www.e-grid.net/docs/0711-monterey.pdf

IEEE Monterey Bay Subsection
Date: Thursday November 1, 2007
Time: 3 pm
Location*: Spanagel Hall Room 321
           Naval Postgraduate School
           Monterey, CA
*Access to the NPS campus is to US citizens only, and
names must be added to the gate access
list (contact D. Jenn at jenn at nps.edu at least 48
hours in advance).

Title: RADAR HISTORY UPDATE − new and
illuminating
information on that “bastard invention”

Speaker: Nicholas Willis

Abstract:
As usually happens during the ongoing development of a
major invention, old information is released (or
declassified) and new information surfaces. Such is
the case with radar, in particular the first radar,
Christian Hulsmeyer’s 1904 telemobilskop, and then the
“rediscovery” of radar in its bistatic configuration
in the 1930s.
This new information is summarized, including the
multiple claims of invention, which lead the great
radar pioneer Lamont Blake to comment that “radar is
one of those bastard inventions: one mother, many
fathers.” Speculation about the utility of radar had
it been embraced earlier closes the brief.