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purplevamp

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Radar is an important tool used by ships. When was it originally developed?

A: Victorian Period

B: World War 1

C: World War 2

I think it's Victorian but I'm not sure...Anyone know the answer? Google comes up with confusing results for me

MaineBlue

http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/radar.html

British physicist James Clerk Maxwell developed equations governing the behaviour of electromagnetic waves in 1864. Inherent in Maxwell’s equations are the laws of radio-wave reflection, and these principles were first demonstrated in 1886 in experiments by the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.

I'm going with Victorian

sofieellis

The question is quite ambiguous really.

from wiki:

The term RADAR was coined in 1939 by the United States Signal Corps as it worked on these systems for the Navy.[2]

also from :

http://www.ob-ultrasound.net/radar.html

The first practical radar system was produced in 1935 by the British physicist Sir Robert Watson-Watt, and by 1939 England had established a chain of radar stations along its south and east coasts to detect aggressors in the air or on the sea.


I think I'm going to go with WW2, but I'm quite confused about it???

Pmliu

The answer is definitely WW2, when you click on the Not sure? Click here! link, it says P.S. Radar was developed in World War 2!