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Jeff Morris
 
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Default Invention of the magnetron -an essential component of radar and microweace ovens.

Sorry to disillusion you ..

http://www.radarworld.org/america.html

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-jeff

"The_navigator©" wrote in message ...
1940? I don't think so, the US didn't have a working cavity magnetron
until it was taken there!

Cheers MC

Jeff Morris wrote:

In 1940 the American technology was the equal of the British for the longer 1 meter
wavelength. But they were not deployed in the same numbers as the British.

I'm not saying the British were not major players in this field. But you implied that
Radar would not have existed without the British - this is clearly a myth!


"The_navigator©" wrote in message
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Bwhahahahha. Who built the first radar array? Did the US even have an
array?


Cheers MC

Jeff Morris wrote:

We were spending
billions of dollars developing Radar to save Britain.