A
tremendous amount of research and development was made during World
War II in the development of radar and related technologies. The
Radiation Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology operated
under the supervision of the National Defense Research Committee,
from October 1940 until December 31, 1945. Key personnel were paid
for six months after the war was over to document all that they
had learned, and the Rad Lab series of books serves as the original microwave
encyclopedia.
Early developments at Rad Lab
include airborne intercept radar, a gun aiming system, and aircraft
navigation (LORAN). LORAN was named after millionaire Alfred Lee
Loomis, a great patron of science leading up to the war. Loomis appears in our Microwave Hall of Fame. We consider the word "LORAN" a portmanteau but you could make an argument that it is an acronym.
The twenty seven volumes (plus
index) and their publication dates are provided below. Check out
other recommended books on microwave engineering here.
1. Louis N. Ridenour, Radar
System Engineering. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1947.
2. John S. Hall, Radar Aids
to Navigation. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1947.
3. Arthur Roberts, Radar
Beacons. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1947.
4. J. A. Pierce, A. A. McKenzie,
and R. H. Woodward, Loran. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948.
5. G. N. Glasoe and J. V. Lebacqz,
Pulse Generators. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948.
6. George B. Collins, Microwave
Magnetrons. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948.
7. Donald R. Hamilton, Julian
K. Knipp, and J. B. Horner Kuper, Klystrons and Microwave Triodes.
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948.
8. C. G. Montgomery, R.
H. Dicke, and E. M. Purcell, Principles of Microwave Circuits.
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948.
9. George L. Ragan, Microwave
Transmission Circuits. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948.
10. N.
Marcuvitz,Waveguide Handbook. McGraw-Hill, New York,
1951.
11. Carol G. Montgomery, Technique
of Microwave Measurements. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1947.
12. Samuel Silver,Microwave
Antenna Theory and Design. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1949.
13. Donald E. Kerr, Propagation
of Short Radio Waves. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1951.
14. Louis D. Smullin and Carol
G. Montgomery, Microwave Duplexers. McGraw-Hill, New York,
1948.
15. Henry C. Torrey and Charles
A. Whitmer, Crystal Rectifiers. McGraw-Hill, New York,
1948.
16. Robert V. Pound, Microwave
Mixers. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948.
17. John F. Blackburn, Components
Handbook. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1949.
18. George E. Valley, Jr. and
Henry Wallman, Vacuum Tube Amplifiers. McGraw-Hill, New
York, 1948.
19. Britton Chance, Vernon
Hughes, Edward F. MacNichol, Jr., David Sayre, and Frederic C.
Williams, Waveforms. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1949.
20. Britton Chance, Robert
I. Hulsizer, Edward F. MacNichol, Jr., and Frederic C. Williams,
Electronic Time Measurements. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1949.
21. Ivan A. Greenwood, Jr.,
J. Vance Holdam, Jr., and Duncan MacRae, Jr., Electronic Instruments.
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948.
22. Theodore Soller, Merle
A. Star, and George E. Valley, Jr., Cathode Ray Tube Displays.
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948.
23. S. N. Van Voorhis, Microwave
Receivers. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948.
24. James L. Lawson and George
E. Uhlenbeck, Threshold Signals. McGraw-Hill, New York,
1950.
25. Hubert M. James, Nathaniel
B. Nichols, and Ralph S. Phillips, Theory of Servomechanisms.
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1947.
26. W. M. Cady, M. B. Karelitz,
and Louis A. Turner, Radar Scanners and Radomes. McGraw-Hill,
New York, 1948.
27. Antonin Svoboda, Computing
Mechanisms and Linkages. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948.
28. Keith Henney, editor, Index.
McGraw-Hill, New York, 1953.
