history · 05 November 1930 · 94 years ago
The origins of naval radar in the US could be traced to a report from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) that two civilian scientists, L. C. Young and L. A. Hyland, had detected an aircraft in flight, this occurred while they were experimenting with the directional S of radio beams, which spotted an aircraft passing overhead. The NRL was later to inaugurate a project for the "detection of enemy vessels and aircraft by radio".
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