The Invention that Changed the World -- how a small group of radar pioneers won the Second World War and launched a technological revolution.
Simon and Schuster, NY 1996, first edition; 575 pages, notes, bibliography, index, some diagrams.
Condition: Very Good hardcover in Very Good dustjacket; exlibrary rubberstamps on rear endpage, some tape marks on endpapers and along the paper-covered boards. the binding is sound and secure, pages are clean.
Categories: 1950's computers and computing, Biography and Company Histories, Computers and Society, General Histories and References, Hardware
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Price: $9.00
Item Description
Contents include, The Most valuable cargo; Radiation Laboratory; Beginnings; A line in the Ether; The Rooftop Gang; The Radar Bridge; Battle for the Atlantic; The Will to war; Tangled Web; Victory;Emergence; Snow on the doorstep; The New Astronomers; Twenty-one; The magic month; a sense of god; Rad Lab Redux; the SAGE Age; the carpetbaggers; a distant view; more.