Items tagged with ‘radar’
An alumnus of the class of 1947 nominates the "Radar dish from the roof of Building 6, as a symbol of the development of radar during WWII."
An alumnus of the class of 1950 nominates this radar set developed by the Rad Lab.
"A specialized radar training program, part of a broader Engineering Defense Training (EDT) program sponsored by the U.S. government, was organized at MIT by ...
The Ferrite core for Whirlwind I computer memory. The magnetic core memory, invented by Jay Forrester, consisted of doughnut-shaped ferrite rings strung on ...
The Whirlwind Project, originally designed to control a U.S. Navy flight simulator, evolved into an air defense system collecting and integrating information ...
A cavity magnetron, key to development of radar. There are various examples in the Museum's collection.
A current graduate student nominates "A radar image of Cape Cod, as it would appear to a radar operator. Gives a sense of what radar looks like."