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Radar, which stands for ‘radio detection and ranging’, is a system for detecting the presence, direction, distance, and speed of aircraft, ships, and other objects, by sending out pulses of radio waves which are reflected off the object back to the source. It was early in 1935 that Sir Henry Tizard’s Aeronautical Research Committee began testing aContinueContinue reading “The wonders of radar”