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August 1939 was a time of great flux. The fear of impending war
fueled by the aggression of Nazi Germany forced many changes. Young
people pursuing academic research were plunged into an entirely
different kind of research and development. For Bernard Lovell, the
war meant involvement in one of the most vital research projects of
the war-radar. Echoes of War: The Story of H2S Radar presents a
passionate first-hand account of the development of the Home Sweet
Home (H2S) radar systems during World War II. The book provides
numerous personal insights into the scientific culture of wartime
Britain and details the many personal sacrifices, setbacks, and
eventual triumphs made by those actively involved. Bernard Lovell
began his work on airborne interception radar in Taffy Bowen's
airborne radar group. He was involved in the initial development of
the application of the 10 centimeter cavity magnetron to airborne
radar that revolutionized radar systems. In the autumn of 1941, the
failure of Bomber Command to locate its target over the cloudy
skies of Europe prompted the formation of a new group to develop a
blind bombing system. Led by Lovell, this group developed the H2S
radar system to identify towns and other targets at night or during
heavy cloud cover. H2S first saw operational use with the
Pathfinder Squadrons in the attack on Hamburg during the night of
January 30-31, 1943. Two months later, modified H2S units installed
in Coastal Command aircraft operating over the Bay of Biscay had a
dramatic tactical effect on the air war against U-boats. The tide
had begun to turn. In this fascinating chronicle of the H2S radar
project, Sir Bernard Lovell recreates the feel and mood of the
wartime years.
August 1939 was a time of great flux. The fear of impending war
fueled by the aggression of Nazi Germany forced many changes. Young
people pursuing academic research were plunged into an entirely
different kind of research and development. For Bernard Lovell, the
war meant involvement in one of the most vital research projects of
the war-radar. Echoes of War: The Story of H2S Radar presents a
passionate first-hand account of the development of the Home Sweet
Home (H2S) radar systems during World War II. The book provides
numerous personal insights into the scientific culture of wartime
Britain and details the many personal sacrifices, setbacks, and
eventual triumphs made by those actively involved. Bernard Lovell
began his work on airborne interception radar in Taffy Bowen's
airborne radar group. He was involved in the initial development of
the application of the 10 centimeter cavity magnetron to airborne
radar that revolutionized radar systems. In the autumn of 1941, the
failure of Bomber Command to locate its target over the cloudy
skies of Europe prompted the formation of a new group to develop a
blind bombing system. Led by Lovell, this group developed the H2S
radar system to identify towns and other targets at night or during
heavy cloud cover. H2S first saw operational use with the
Pathfinder Squadrons in the attack on Hamburg during the night of
January 30-31, 1943. Two months later, modified H2S units installed
in Coastal Command aircraft operating over the Bay of Biscay had a
dramatic tactical effect on the air war against U-boats. The tide
had begun to turn. In this fascinating chronicle of the H2S radar
project, Sir Bernard Lovell recreates the feel and mood of the
wartime years.
In this volume the creator and director of Jodrell Bank, the
world's largest radio telescope, tells the fascinating story behind
the building of this huge telescope. Though the telescope is
popularly known for tracking and communicating with man-made
satellites, its prime function is the study of the universe by
means of radio waves emitted by distatant stars. The radiation
received from meteors, the moon, the Andromeda Galaxy, and the
Milky Way offers new information daily about the origins of life on
this planet and the possibilities of life on other worlds. The
building of the telescope was fraught with mishaps and
frustrations-financial, political, and otherwise; yet, through his
perseverance, Sir Bernard Lovell made its creation a reality. His
story, drawn largely from personal diaries, documents the complex
conflicts among scientists, bureaucrats, and politicians which
arose out of this monumental endeavor.
This book examines the treatment of space and narrative in a
selection of classic films including "My Darling Clementine," "It's
a Wonderful Life," and "Vertigo." Deborah Thomas employs a variety
of arguments in exploring the reading of space and its meaning in
Hollywood cinema and film generally. Topics covered include the
importance of space in defining genre (such as the necessity of an
urban landscape for a gangster film to be a gangster film); the
ambiguity of offscreen space and spectatorship (how an audience
reads an unseen but inferred setting), and the use of spatially
disruptive cinematic techniques such as flashback to construct
meaning.
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