Word: magnetrons
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...house. Next day, satisfied that they had shaken off any possible spies, they turned up at the Bell Laboratories with the supersecret device that broke the radar bottleneck. The Briton, a member of a radar mission to the U.S., brought designs anda model of an electronic tube called the "magnetron...
...magnetron, by whirling electrons at high speed inside a magnetized cylinder, produced extremely short radio waves and great power. Its principle was not new. But the British had developed a high-powered version of it, and U.S. engineers perfected its radar adaptation...
...With the magnetron's help, the M.I.T...
...high-powered transmitter using a magnetron...