Word: yagi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paralleled by a team of British physicists under Sir Robert A. Watson-Watt. (The British first called it "radiolocation," later accepted the U.S. word "radar."*) There were also the Germans, who were known to be experimenting with radar as early as 1935; the Japs, whose physicist Hide-tsugu Yagi was working on basic shortwave studies long before the war (the U.S. Navy called its early radar antennae "yagis"); the French, who in 1936 installed on the Normandie a crude radar for detecting icebergs...