[Milsurplus] Robert Watson-Watt

[David Olean]

To your list I would add "The Invention That Changed The World" by 
Robert Buderi. Touchstone Books, published by Simon & Shuster 1997. This 
has been one of my favorite books on technology. Mr. Buderi covers the 
early development of RADAR on both sides of the Atlantic. He describes 
its use in WW2, and then covers other technological developments that 
continued after the war, such as early warning radars of the 50's and 
60's and then the spillover into radio astronomy as well.

The subtitle reads: "How a small group of radar pioneers won the Second 
World War and launched a technological revolution"

He goes into pretty good detail on the development and techniques used. 
It is a nice balance between easy readability and covering the important 
aspects of the discoveries and their application to RADAR.  I highly 
recommend this book.  I have made a point to find "Instruments of 
Darkness" I had not heard of that title. I'll bet I'll love that one too!


Dave K1WHS


On 3/27/2019 2:27 PM, k2cby at optonline.net wrote:
>
> There are three books that should be on the shelf of anyone interested 
> in the early years of British radar, blind-bombing, and counter-measures.
>
> R. V. Jones “The Wizard War”, already mentioned, is top notch, 
> although it relates more to radio navigation and bombing (both British 
> and German) than radar.
>
> Robert Watson-Watt’s own book is titled “The Pulse of Radar.” It deals 
> exclusively with radar and is comprehensive, although Watson-Watt is 
> not as entertaining a writer as Jones.
>
> The third is “Instruments of Darkness” by Alfred Price. It covers both 
> radar and radio-nav and continues the tale from the earliest 
> developments to the Vietnam era.
>
> Good reading all!
>
> Miles B. Anderson, K2CBY
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