PBS American Experience: The Secret of Tuxedo Park

[Robert Mahnke]

Apropos of this subject, Jennet Conant wrote a book called (and now I am
quoting from her Wikipedia page) Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the
Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War II (2002),
based in part on her family's role in World War II, explores the hitherto
unknown story of lawyer, scientist, and New York financier Alfred Lee
Loomis and his role in the development of radar technology during World War
II.

I read this book several years ago and thought it was interesting enough if
you are into that sort of thing, which I guess I was, but I guess I didn't
remember it all that well. I suspect the book's subtitle overstates the
case.

Another set of inventors who were working in that general space (early
radar) were Russell and Sigurd Varian,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_and_Sigurd_Varian, who went on to
found one of the powerhouses of an earlier phase of Silicon Valley's
development.

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 2:33 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCR-584_radar
>
> The *SCR-584* (short for *Set, Complete, Radio
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Corps_Radio> # 584*) was an
> automatic-tracking microwave <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave> r
> adar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar>developed by the MIT Radiation
> Laboratory <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Radiation_Laboratory> during
>  World War II <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II>. It was one of
> the most advanced ground-based radars of its era, and became one of the
> primary gun laying radars <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laying_radar>
>  used worldwide well into the 1950s.
>
> The radar was intended to be introduced in late 1943, but various delays
> meant the SCR-584 did not reach field units until early 1944. Many were
> rushed to England where they were an invaluable part of the defences
> developed to counter the V1 flying bomb
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V1_flying_bomb>. By the end of the war
> they had been used to track artillery shells in flight, detect vehicles,
> and dramatically reduce the manpower needed to guide anti-aircraft guns.
>
>
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> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you could shoot down a V-2 with a radar-controlled gun, that would be
>> pretty cool. Even if V-1s, I can't believe that the technology really
>> neutralized the threat, because they'd have had to deploy guns all along
>> the southern coast of England to prevent any buzz-bombs from flying over.
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Mistaken, at any rate.
>>>
>>> On Feb 4, 2018 3:37 PM, "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The show said V-2s.  Fake show?
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:13 PM Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> V-1 attacks; nobody was shooting down V-2s.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 12:00 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The story of a Wall Street tycoon who lead the development of
>>>>>> microwave radar automatic anti-aircrraft guns that nuetralized the V-2
>>>>>> attacks from France.  And that was just the start.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> David Morris
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>
>
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