The Invention That Changed The World - Hardcover

Buderi, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316907154 ISBN 13: 9780316907156

Publisher: Little, Brown, 1997

Synopsis

In 1940 a team of British Scientists arrived in Washington, bearing Britain's most closely guarded technological secrets, including the cavity magnetron, a revolutionary new source of microwave energy. Its arrival triggered the most dramatic mobilisation of science in history, as America's top scientists enlisted to convert the invention into a potent military weapon. Microwave radars eventually helped destroy Japanese warships, Nazi buzz bombs and enabled Allied bombers to 'see' through cloud cover. After the war the work of radar veterans continues to affect our lives p controlling air traffic helping to forecast the weather and providing physicians with powerful diagnostic tools. Brimming with telling anecdotes and suprising revelations, this book brings to life the exciting, largely untold story of the scientist who not only created a winning weapon but also changed our world for ever.

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Review:

Without the invention of radar, Europe--and possibly even the world-- might today be under Fascist rule. This well-written, technically accurate and truly exciting account captures the urgency of the race to win the second world war, the people behind the magnetrons, screens and antennae, and the use of radar in the Cold War. Another extraordinary volume from the Sloan Foundation Technology Series, and highly recommended.

Review:

From the ashes of the Second World War there have emerged two great technological thrillers: Richard Rhodes ('THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB and this.')

THE NEW YORKER ('Reads as compellingly as the best spy fiction. A fascinating story well-told.')

KIRKUS REVIEWS ('Masterly. Buderi cannot be praised too highly for producing a scholarly and well-researched book which is also enjoyable to read.')

NEW SCIENTIST ('Excellent, highly readable. Buderi has carried through and ambitious enterprise very well. The book merits a broad readership and should endure as a semi-popular classic.')

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0316907154
• ISBN 13: 9780316907156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576