New Eye for the Navy: The Origin of Radar at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) - Creation of NRL, Discovery of 1922, Radar Goes to Sea, Device Becomes the Field of Microwave Research
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This is a print replica reproduction of a major Navy history document about the Naval Research Laboratory and its pioneering work on radar technology: New Eye for the Navy: The Origin of Radar at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). A bonus document is also included: Pushing the Horizon, Seventy-Five Years of High Stakes Science and Technology at the NRL.
The title of this volume, "New Eye for the Navy: The Origin of Radar at the Naval Research Laboratory," inadequately describes its contents. It is, in fact, a remarkable case study of mission oriented research and development during the critical period from World War I through World War II. Dr. Allison has completed a scholarly review of the development of radar at NRL together with the personalities and objectives of the people who were involved in it. In a broader sense, this volume answers a group of questions which have major impact in the context of the current complex world of research-and-development administration. How and why did the Naval Research Laboratory develop as an institution? How did it evolve from the original concept of some of its early supporters? Originally, NRL was conceived as being an extrapolation of the arsenal concept of the nineteenth century. Within five to ten years of its founding, however, it evolved into a modern laboratory which integrated basic research with system developments. When was the idea of radar conceived, and when did the laboratory develop it? Why was the early equipment designed as it was and in what sense did it reflect institutional capabilities and biases? This book also discusses the response of the leaders of operational forces to the development of radar and examines the relationship of the NRL development to other independent developments both in the United States and abroad.
The transition of research from an in-house government laboratory to private industry has always been a difficult, controversial problem. Hence, the case study of how private industry became involved in radar is extremely illuminating. The question of what brought about the transformation of the primitive laboratory radars of the 1930s into a mature technology that resulted in a massive production effort during World War I1 is examined with remarkable insight and clarity. These important issues and the responses to them record and explain one important aspect of how the Department of the Navy met its responsibility to maintain national defense in the years between World War I and World War II.
The title of this volume, "New Eye for the Navy: The Origin of Radar at the Naval Research Laboratory," inadequately describes its contents. It is, in fact, a remarkable case study of mission oriented research and development during the critical period from World War I through World War II. Dr. Allison has completed a scholarly review of the development of radar at NRL together with the personalities and objectives of the people who were involved in it. In a broader sense, this volume answers a group of questions which have major impact in the context of the current complex world of research-and-development administration. How and why did the Naval Research Laboratory develop as an institution? How did it evolve from the original concept of some of its early supporters? Originally, NRL was conceived as being an extrapolation of the arsenal concept of the nineteenth century. Within five to ten years of its founding, however, it evolved into a modern laboratory which integrated basic research with system developments. When was the idea of radar conceived, and when did the laboratory develop it? Why was the early equipment designed as it was and in what sense did it reflect institutional capabilities and biases? This book also discusses the response of the leaders of operational forces to the development of radar and examines the relationship of the NRL development to other independent developments both in the United States and abroad.
The transition of research from an in-house government laboratory to private industry has always been a difficult, controversial problem. Hence, the case study of how private industry became involved in radar is extremely illuminating. The question of what brought about the transformation of the primitive laboratory radars of the 1930s into a mature technology that resulted in a massive production effort during World War I1 is examined with remarkable insight and clarity. These important issues and the responses to them record and explain one important aspect of how the Department of the Navy met its responsibility to maintain national defense in the years between World War I and World War II.
