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Radar pioneers kept faith through decades of doubt
Washington June 23 1943 radar the radio eyes of the armed forces moved from theory to reality after 1930 as Dr Albert Hoyt Taylor and associates refined detection of ships and aircraft. Navy and army funding lagged but key figures like Robert Page and Robert Guthrie pushed the pulse technique that made radar practical, revealing a decades long effort to shield the United States from air attack.
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Albert Hoyt Taylor
Naval Research Laboratory
Navy
John M. Hightower
Associated Press
Carlos B. Mirick
Naval Air Station
Mount Vernon Boulevard
Virginia
Potomac
Mirick
Taylor
Washington
Army
Army Signal Corps
United States
NRL
Leo C. Young
Navy Department
Engineering Bureau
Tacar
Bowen
White Taylor
Young
Page
Gerhard
Laboratory
Robert M. Page
Hamline University
St. Paul
Minn
University of Montana
Robert C. Guthrie
America
Des Moines