History 138:  Science in the U.S.

Class 33 (11/8)
The physicists' war:  radar
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Outline The film "Echoes of war" is available only privately. If you need to attend the make-up showing, contact Prof. Carson.
Names and Terms
Primary Secondary
radar = RAdio Detection And Ranging
strategic bombing, precision vs. blind bombing
Vannevar Bush (1890-1974)
microwave (10-cm, then 3-cm) radar
MIT Radiation Laboratory (Rad Lab)
I.I. Rabi (1898-1988)		 Battle of Britain (1940)
Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
Battle of the Atlantic (1943)
countermeasures
V-1, buzz bomb,the Blitz
cavity magnetron
Assignment Hughes, American, ch. 8, through p. 421.

 What was the social and political promise of the Tennessee Valley Authority?
 What mechanisms allowed scientists, engineers, and government to work together in the Manhattan Project?
 How was Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley a model for huge scientific ventures?
 Ultimately, was the Manhattan Project a scientific project or not?
 What moves Hughes to put the TVA and the Manhattan Project side by side?
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