Word: klystrons
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...Gebhard-who pioneered radar in the '205 and '303; the Signal Corps' Colonel Roger Colton (now an A.A.F. major general), whose laboratory staff at Fort Monmouth designed the first Army set; Stanford University's R. H. and S. F. Varian, who invented the important klystron tube; and a great anonymous army of scientists at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, Bell Telephone Laboratories, General Electric, many another industrial laboratory. The U.S. also owes much to Rear Admiral Harold G. Bowen, who, as chief of the Naval Research Laboratory, sparked its radar pioneering...
...receiver with a "klystron," "lighthouse" or other oscillating tube, used to convert the microwave echo to a lower radio frequency so that it can be amplified...