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Radar


1996 Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot, dies at 93

1992 Robert Morris Page, U.S. physicist (radar), dies at 88

1978 U.S. launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces 1st global radar map of Venus

1973 Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies at 81

1959 Radar 1st bounced off Sun from Stanford, California

1959 1st known radar contact is made with Venus

1948 Cesar Zuiderwijk, Dutch rock drummer, Golden Earring, Radar Love

1947 Radar for commercial and private planes 1st demonstrated

1946 1st radar installation aboard a coml ship installed

1946 U.S. Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ

1940 Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts

1938 1st passenger ship equipped with radar

1935 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR

1934 Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany

1934 Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Germany

1930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC

1903 Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot

1897 John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist, Radar, Nobel 1951

1892 Robert A. Watson-Watt, England, physicist, radar

1884 Otto Bohm, born in Prussia, scientist, helped create England Radar



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