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30th January 2006, 00:59
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Re: Invention of Radar
The US Navy was detecting aircraft with radio waves in the late 1920s. As this effort was accomplished by a US Government agency, I am not certain that any effort was made to patent the device. However, this work basically continued unbroken and there is a German paper in 1936 refering to Doppler radar research being performed by GE in the USA. For the Germans to have known about it, it seems probable that it had been progressing for some time prior to their becoming aware of it. I believe that the USA work was entirely independent of anything happening in GB or Europe during that period. It was not untill later that GB and USA pooled their efforts in this field. I believe that most USN capital ships were equipped with radar for detection and gun laying well before WWII.
Best regards, Artie Bob 
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