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EARLY in March 1946, the Institution of Electrical Engineers held a Radiolocation Conference at which were presented a large number of lectures and papers by various members and other individuals who had contributed to the development and application of radiolocation during the war years. The Convention was formally opened at an ordinary meeting of the Institution by the Minister of Supply, Mr. John Wilmot, and was followed by a lecture on “The Evolution of Radiolocation” by Sir Robert Watson-Watt. In the course of this lecture it was explained that the object of the Convention was to describe and discuss British activities in this subject, which began in February 1935 and were at first conducted independently of any similar work elsewhere. Following the co-operation established between Great Britain and the United States in the autumn of 1940, later developments were conducted on the basis of a United Nations' system for which the name 'radar' was adopted in 1943, this term being then in current use in the United States.
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BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO RADIOLOCATION. Nature 159, 174–175 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159174a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/159174a0