Isbn: 9780852745908 - radar days (5 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. very nice copy; name of previous owner on endpaper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with slight age tone. Good DJ with light wear.

Hard Cover/Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. Black publisher's cloth; metallic silver spine lettering. Foreword by Lord Bowden of Chesterfield. Black-and-white frontispiece photograph of Sir Henry Tizard, "the genius who foresaw how the Battle of Britain would be fought. . ." Many black-and-white photographs and figures within text. The author worked with Watson Watt on the construction of the first experimental air-warning system in Britain. he went on to lead a team which designed and built the first airborne radars. Clean, tight, and unworn in a glossy dust jacket with few light pressure marks.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Radar Days By E G Bowen. Publisher: Adam Hilger, 1987, Bristol. First Edition. Very good hardback with jacket. Minor compression to spine ends, minor marks, inscription to ffep, light tanning to page edges. Jacket has light edge-wear. It is now more than sixty years since radar began in Britain. In the intervening years, airborne radar has become one of the most important branches of civilian and military radar. In Radar Days, "the father of airborne radar," Dr. "Taffy" Bowen recounts his personal story of how the first airborne radars were built and brought into use in the Royal Air Force, and of the Tizard mission to the USA in 1940, of which he was a member. Written from the point of view of the individuals who worked at the laboratory bench, the story begins with the building of the first ground air-warning radar at Orfordness in June 1935. The book proceeds to describe how this equipment was miniaturized to make it suitable for use in aircraft and the lengthy, sometimes hazardous flight trials conducted before radar went into service with the RAF. The author also details the activities of the Tizard mission, which was instrumental in installing the first airborne radars in US aircraft. The greatest achievement of the mission was to pass on the secret of the resonant magnetron to the US only a few months after its invention at Birmingham University. This was the device that brought about a revolution in Allied radar, putting it far ahead of the corresponding German technology for the remainder of the war. 231 pages, illustrated.…