Word: radars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Army security relaxed, the M.I.T. Radiation Laboratory, U.S. headquarters for radar research, announced more radar news...
...Most striking was a radar picture of Manhattan taken through heavy clouds at a low altitude by the latest microwave set (see cut). Plainly showing, in fairly sharp outline, are piers, Central Park, individual buildings...
...seacoast fire-control radar" can detect individual vessels 25 miles out to sea through the soupiest nor'easter, with a five-yard margin of error at twelve miles...
...peacetime, it can guide radar-less vessels to safety with pinpoint accuracy...
...Adapting radar to peacetime jobs was a tough reconversion problem. Chief obstacle: cost. A good ground-based set costs $75,000. Even a portable, airborne set ($4,000) has little future as a household gadget. Radar's first peacetime jobs will probably be in ship navigation* and on the airways...