The History of Radar Technology

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pursued their ideas for another few years without economic or financial success. Discouraged by the lack of interest, Hu¨lsmeyer and his investor, Heinrich Mannheim, gave up a few years later.
The next person, who recognized the importance of the radar effect, was Marconi. As a young man Marconi had exhaustively pursued the work of Heinrich Hertz and had constructed his communication experiments upon it. In 1922 he gave a fiery speech before the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) in London. Several lines can be read in Figure 1.2. Nevertheless not even he was in a position to awake enthusiasm and interest for radar technology.
Beginning in 1922 successful radar experiments with a wooden ship using 600 MHz were carried out by Tayler and Young of the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Their work was also abandoned after a short while. Then in the years 1925/26 Breit and Tuve conducted investigations on the earth’s Ionosphere. From this time on the importance of radar for ...

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