Word: radars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vastly expanded" radar and microwave warning system, to alert Okinawa, Japan, Korea, Guam and other outposts in the Pacific, as well as the U.S., against a sneak attack by the Communists. "Regardless of the expense," said the governors, "we feel that this must be done so that there will be no future Pearl Harbors...
...Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry, set up the Graduate School, reorganized the undergraduate course to give M.I.T.'s science and engineering students a better grounding in the liberal arts. During the war, he helped mastermind the atomic bomb project, saw M.I.T. and Harvard turn Cambridge, Mass, into the radar center of the world...
Stop & Go. A radar system to control stoplights and avoid traffic tie-ups was tested in Norwalk, Conn, by New Haven...
...supporters of this theory is Professor Rudolf Drost of the Helgoland Ornithological Institute. During the war he saw flocks of birds fly "turbulently" when hit by radar beams. Crows disconcerted in this way took several minutes to regain flyability...
Germany's alarmed pigeon fanciers have now engaged Professor Abraham Esau, radar specialist in Aachen's Technical School, to look into the situation. Dr. Esau is sure that birds are guided by some type of electromagnetic waves. If scientists can find out what waves confuse a bird's "instruments," they may learn how the mysterious sense works...