Radar During World War I

With the weapons came the tactics to World War One. The main warfare tactic was defensive trenches. People made many trenches and hid in them. But they also stored weapons and fought against people. They would shoot from inside the trenches, but then some people

“At the time of our entry into World War I America was ill prepared for large scale warfare with large movements of whole Armies. The U.S. Army was not prepared with its Artillery and had no heavy artillery guns to speak of” (Hartwell, 2017). During World War I, the Coast Artillery Corps was subject to rapid changes and unit realignments. This signified the beginning of a seamless transition to what would eventually give birth to Air Defense Artillery. The French and British had provided the United States Army with its initial Artillery weapons resulting in no American Artillery brought to the front. Production quickly started on American versions of their foreign Artillery counterparts currently used in action. The American 8

Britain had RADAR which gave early warning of the approach of the German planes” (“History Learning Site-Battle of Britain”). One of the biggest advantages for Great Britain was that if they ran out of ammo they could get more, but Germany had to savor the amount they had. Great Britain's forces overpowered the Germans and won the battle.

I discovered and learned many things about my image, one highlight were the importance of heavy guns such as the 15-inch howitzer and artillery in WW1. The essential need to advance technology and adapt to it was a must in order to keep up with the enemies or a way to win a war. Having units do specific duties ordered to them is important to be efficient and have experienced soldiers know what to do, such as the RMA. These are things that I learned from researching about my image.

Technologies based on ideas from the First World War have changed the way countries defend and attack during wartime through the mechanization of warfare, chemical warfare, and war transportation.

The era of most mechanical computation devices has somewhat ceased, and gave way to electronic computation devices. This sudden change gave way to an immediate impact, this impact was felt most during one of the most violent times in America’s history, WWII. During this time the military had a priority to be able to navigate and break the conversation codes from the enemy. Radar in WWII was also much more accurate. In a very real sense, electronic implementation and computer technology came at just the right time, and was a small cornerstone for the American Military. Mechanical devices when compared to pure electronic computation devices were too slow and very unreliable. In an electronic computing devices, their electrons achieve the same

During World War One (WW1) various technological advances occurred and had a positive influence on warfare. People claim that the war was deadly due to the creation of new weapons and military tactics that were put into use. Although it can be seen as negative due to the number of casualties and the amount of conflicts that arouse, there were various benefits to the technological advances during the First World War, because trench warfare was introduced, new military tactics formed, and more efficient weapons were created.

The Battle of Britain was an extremely important piece of history that was almost completely exclusive to air battles between the Royal Air Force and the German Luftwaffe. Luckily for Great Britain, its air defense system was one of the most effective of its time. Luckily for Germany, the Luftwaffe contained numbers that were far superior to Great Britain's, in terms of men and also the amount of planes used in battle and in bombings. The Battle of Britain was also the first big battle to use radar on Great Britain’s coast to its full potential. One of the biggest attacks planned by Hitler was the attack on London, which ended up turning the battle in Great Britain’s favor. And so the Battle of Britain was known as exclusive to air battles,

There were many different kinds of equipment used in World War Two. One of the most important inventions of the war was radar. In 1886, Heinrich Hertz discovered the technology to develop the radar, and it was heavily developed and improved by the British.

The preparation for and the acts of war have been greatly influential in technological advancements, economic growth, and industrialization. No war has made a bigger impact in these areas than World War II, as applications in the fields of engineering and science were passed on to the military for future operations that they would have. Prior to World War II, the world that people saw on a daily basis was vastly different from the world we live in today. No one had any idea what the future would have in store for the future generations.

Here are some things that were advanced or invented in ww1, tanks, tracer bullets, armored cars, flamethrowers, Aircraft, Aircraft carriers, Anti- aircraft guns, Geophone, Rifles, Blimps, submarines, poison gas, mortars, and depth charges. All these things were used in battle and some of them were very effective at decimating the other side.With

During World War 1, innovation shaped causing changes to the social, economic and political structures of the world. Numerous innovations coming out from all around the world were war based, giving nations that superiority in the war. The most feared of the time, poison gas, most often used for the destroying the strength of trench warfare.

Radar (Radio Detection and Ranging) is a method of detection that works by sending out radio waves and detecting any reflections from distant objects. Created by Christian Hülsmeyer, a German scientist, in 1904, the invention first became useful in World War 1, where it was used to determine the location of enemy planes.. Once World War 2 began and U-boats were once again roaming the Atlantic, the Allies knew that they needed a means of detecting the location of these deadly submarines. Radar could essentially “see” things as dots using radio waves, and although it was not created to specifically detect U-boats, it became a technological weapon that the allies could use for their benefit. Additionally, Sonar (Sound Navigation and Ranging) was built specifically to counteract the threat of underwater enemies such as the U-boats. Sonar uses sound waves to detect distant objects. Similar to radar, the use of sonar allowed the British surface fleet to detect the direction and depth of these submarines and destroy many of them. What makes these two technologies similar is that they both locate enemy ships using waves that could not be seen and they could do it at such a distance that the Germans would have no way of interfering and stopping them. This advanced technology was a detriment to the U-boats because the German Navy could no longer surprise the Allied forces.

The first radar- Crate in World War 2 for the military and fighter jets. The person who discovered the radar is an Austrian physicist and astronomer named Christian Johann Doppler. His discovery in 1842 was dubbed the Doppler Principle, the concept defining how radar determines speed. By the 1930s, scientists had noticed when ships passed between radio transmitters some of the signal reflected back to the source. Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt and his team build the first radar on the Doppler Principle. In light of the threat posed by Nazi Germany, Great Britain built a series of 21 radar towers.The Nazi start to attack with series of bombing raids on England.They knew that an invasion would only be successful if they could establish air superiority. The Luftwaffe had 2,400 planes and the British had 600 planes. The 21 radar towers called the Chain Home Network gave the British a decided advantage. The radar would alert the British of an incoming attack before the Nazi come. This helps the british to get ready for an attack. A British scientist named Taffy Bowen went to America to design plans for the radar.

“The Battle of France is over, the Battle of Britain is about to begin” (Churchill 1940). Following Hitler’s threat, the RAF was ordered by Winston Churchill (British Army Officer) to prepare for war. This paper reviews the contribution of radar technology towards the victory of the Royal Air Force (RAF) over the Germans during the Battle of Britain (10th of July 1940 – 31st of October 1940), as this is a topic that has begun to gain attention from contemporary researchers, but for which little factual evidence exists. Much of the research relating to this topic leans towards the idea that the RAF soldiers were victorious due to the advantage of fighting on home turf and the diversity of their pilots, which is inadequate in a full examination of the war conditions. More importantly, two major factors that motivate the research undertaken in this paper, is the fact that the Battle of Britain was the first major campaign fought entirely by air forces, and the RAF’s victory marked the first defeat of Hitler’s military force. Given the importance of this battle and the introduction of RADAR technology during the period, one might wonder if the RADAR technology led the Royal Air Force