Radar: A Silent Eye in the Sky
Daniel Brosk Period Two
Today's society relies heavily on an invention taken for granted: radar.
Just about everybody uses radar, whether they realize it or not. Tens of
thousands of lives rely on the precision and speed of radar to guide their plane
through the skies unscathed. Others just use it when they turn on the morning
news to check the weather forecast.
While radar seems to be an important part of our everyday lives, it has
not been around for long. It was not put into effect until 1935, near World War
II. The British and the Americans both worked on radar, but they did not work
together to build a single system. They each developed their own systems at the
same time. In 1935, the first radar systems are installed in Great Britain,
called the Early Warning Detection system. In 1940, Great Britain and the
United States install radar aboard fighter planes, giving them an advantage in
plane-to-plane combat as well as air-to-ground......
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