The WW2 Battle That Gave Us Radar

In 1935 war was looming and there were rumors the Nazi's had something capable of wiping out whole towns. The British Government feared an aerial invasion and wanted a ‘death ray’ that could knock German planes out of the sky. What they got was radar.

Video by Tom Gibson

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[pjacob]

Everyone: Aviation is getting safer and safer.
Boeing 737 max: Not so fast.

[pinbackerman]

Germans: "Those Brits won't see u-“
RAF: *J. Jonah Jameson laugh*

[gus]

👍 Great episode in a great series! Thanks, Bloomberg! 😎

[robertschlesinger]

The crudest radar dates back about 100 years. Radar has many other applications in the modern world, and has applications in space as well. Once a nearby astronomical body, for example, has been optically detected, radar may sometimes be used to better define its features.

[overlordunknown]

3:43 Does anyone else kind of wish they grew up in the 40s? It seems like such a magically time, after the World Wars had ended, that swanky music and everything in Chrome.

[vlado]

Unique, rare and very interesting information !
Thanks dear Bloomberg !
Special thanks to dear Tom Gibson !
I appreciate it !

[nickdanger]

Radar was patented in the USA in 1934. The magnetron was not invented in Britain, but the cavity magnetron was. Microwave radar was invented in the USA by what became known as the Rad Lab at MIT, using the cavity magnetron.

[AmalDevYT]

*And Boeing 737 Max had Joined The Chat*

[souvikdas]

That gave us radar AND MICROWAVE OVENS!

[seasong]

crazy to think how WW2 led to self driving cars using radar

[loloconnor]

You sad that the nazis never landed on British soil which is not true they actually took over a British island called gurneys (I think I spelled that wrong)

[guyanon]

Man, I wish we still fought wars like we did back in ww2

[bubiruski]

Germans even used phased array antennas (Mammut).
Germans considered primitive Fnglish radar useless. That‘s they reason why they did not even bomb it !

[antigen]

thank the germans for radar - developed by heinrich hertz in the 1880s

[Whysosadams]

Pretty sure this is a direct copy of the BBC world podcast. 50 things that made the modern economy?

[dharmateja]

How did US get hold of UK's radar tech??.. They were allies but still at that time such a technology must have been considered state secret.

[jenna_tools]

Cool where did you get the idea for this?? *ahem

[UnipornFrumm]

we made gigant leaps in safety untill 2017, then we relaxed ower safety standards and flyng not safe once again

[Jebusmike]

But the news says airplanes are scary!

[chengyiq]

Rip MH370. Hopefully they did not simply disappeared on the radar, but rather accidentally travel through a worm hole to the future