Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most the treasure was worth only $1,900, but it was the King's trove and Snow was jubilant. Beaming at his find, he planned to get a radar set, go hunting storied New England hulks (among them the British Privateer Mary Ann, sunk off Chatham with $1,000,000 in bullion) which have hitherto evaded unscientific treasure seekers...
...With atomic bombs and radar in mind, the skeptic may well ask what the physicist thinks he has been doing during these past five years, if not physics...
...chops up the week with five subjects. Mondays feature U.S. history (The Genius of Franklin, Riding the Range, The Big Canal); Tuesday shows are music (sample for Halloween: Danse Macabre, Grieg's March of the Dwarfs); Wednesdays are science (Conquering Pain, Friendly Alloys, Story of Radar); Thursdays, current events (War Criminals, The Hero's Return) ; Fridays, literature (The Pickwick Papers, The Devil and Daniel Webster.) The regular talent is top-drawer: famed Explorer Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews narrates the history show; Bernard Herrmann and the Columbia Concert Orchestra plays the Tuesday music lessons; and Commentator Quincy Howe...
Meanwhile radar, like many another war worker, was temporarily unemployed, while the U.S. dismantled its $3 billion radar industry. Almost as fantastic as its products was the Radiation Laboratory at Cambridge, Mass. According to M.I.T.'s President Karl Compton, it was "the biggest research organization in the history of the world." Beginning in the fall of 1940, when the nation's top physicists began to gather in a few offices lent by M.I.T., the Laboratory quietly took over a milk plant, a shoe-polish factory, an airport. Eventually, it grew to a team of 3,800, including...
...First to announce a commercial radar was General Electric, which offered a ship's set to detect other ships, rocks, buoys, etc, at night...