Inventive brothers who gave pilots a sixth sense

• Autores: Chris Baraniuk
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3127, 2017, págs. 40-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The urgent cablegram zipped under the Atlantic towards the US as the second world war started to unfold. British scientists at the University of Bristol, rightly fearing an aerial war with Germany, were desperately searching for ways to put radar technology onboard small fighter planes, to give them an edge in the air. What they needed was a small but powerful instrument that could greatly amplify high-frequency radio waves--those into the microwave range--so they could bounce them off things that were hidden by clouds or darkness. Here, Baraniuk talks about Russell and Sigurd Varian's invention of the "Sutton tube" klystron, which gave Royal Air Force pilots a significant advantage during Germany's night-bombing raids.