Cockerill a w with (8 risultati)
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Da: -OnTimeBooks-, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.-OnTimeBooks-
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Condizione: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Ship…ped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.
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Da: Blue Vase Books, Interlochen, MI, U.S.A.Blue Vase Books
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Condizione: good. Missing dust cover, otherwise book is in good condition with some wear from normal use.
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Da: Alhambra Books, Edmonton, AB, CanadaAlhambra Books
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 224 pp, index, b/w photos. Dj has light edgewear.
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Da: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. xii, [2], 224 pages. Maps, Illustrations. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling and is taped to the boards. Some marginal pencil marks noted. Jack Nissen (1918-1997) was a technician who worked on radar developments and installations during World War II. Recounted in his… memoir, Winning the Radar War, Jack Nissen was part of a secret reconnaissance assignment during the Dieppe Raid. The Canadian South Saskatchewan Regiment escorted Nissen in his quest to find out more about the German Freya radar installed at Pourville, near Dieppe. His job was to find out if Germany possessed precision radar technology. However, because of his valuable knowledge of the British radar, the South Saskatchewan Regiment was under orders to shoot and kill the radar specialist should the task be intercepted by the Germans and the raiding party be in danger of capture; under no circumstances could the British afford to let Nissen be taken alive. With numerous close calls during the raid, which was eventually successful, Nissen escaped capture and returned to England. His action in cutting the land lines and forcing the Freya operators to resort to radio transmissions, which the British radio listeners were able to monitor, confirmed that the German Freya radar was indeed a precision installation. Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather formations, and terrain. A radar system consists of a transmitter producing electromagnetic waves in the radio or microwaves domain, an emitting antenna, a receiving antenna (separate or the same as the previous one) to capture any returns from objects in the path of the emitted signal, a receiver and processor to determine properties of the object(s). Radar was secretly developed by several nations in the period before and during World War II. The term RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging. The term radar has since entered English and other languages as a common noun, losing all capitalization. Full radar evolved as a pulsed system, and the first such elementary apparatus was demonstrated in December 1934 by the American Robert M. Page, working at the Naval Research Laboratory. The following year, the United States Army successfully tested a primitive surface-to-surface radar to aim coastal battery search lights at night. This was followed by a pulsed system demonstrated in May 1935 by Rudolf Kühnhold and the firm GEMA in Germany and then one in June 1935 by an Air Ministry team led by Robert A. Watson-Watt in Great Britain. Development of radar greatly expanded on 1 September 1936 when Watson-Watt became Superintendent of a new establishment under the British Air Ministry, Bawdsey Research Station located in Bawdsey Manor, near Felixstowe, Suffolk. Work there resulted in the design and installation of aircraft detection and tracking stations called "Chain Home" along the East and South coasts of England in time for the outbreak of World War II in 1939. This system provided the vital advance information that helped the Royal Air Force win the Battle of Britain. An earlier report about aircraft causing radio interference led to the Daventry Experiment of 26 February 1935, using a powerful BBC shortwave transmitter as the source and their GPO receiver set up in a field while a bomber flew around the site. When returns were clearly seen, funds were immediately provided for development of an operational system. Given all required funding and development support, the team had working radar systems in 1935 and began deployment. By 1936 the first five Chain Home (CH) systems were operational and by 1940 stretched across the entire UK including Northern Ireland. Even by standards of the era, CH was crude; instead of broadcasting and receiving from an aimed antenna, CH broadcast a signal floodlighting the entire area in front of it, and then used one of Watt's own radio direction finders to determine the direction of the returned echoes. This meant that CH transmitters had to be much more powerful and have better antennas than competing systems but allowed its rapid introduction using existing technologies. In late 1941 Popular Mechanics had an article in which a U.S. scientist speculated about the British early warning system on the English east coast and came close to what it was and how it worked. In 1943, Page greatly improved radar with the monopulse technique that was used for many years in most radar applications. First U.S. Edition [stated], First printing [stated].
Altre immaginiEditore: Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1987
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Da: Alex Simpson, Carrying Place, ON, CanadaAlex Simpson
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Hard Cover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. xii, 224pp. with b/w illustrations. Orange dot on the top edge, light creasing from page handling and light soil to outer edges. DJ has light edge/rub wear and light creasing. No printed price on the jacket. Actual book for sale pictured. 15.9 x 23.7 x 2.3cm, wt700g Size:… 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Altre immaginiEditore: Macmillan of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1987
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Da: Alex Simpson, Carrying Place, ON, CanadaAlex Simpson
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Hard Cover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. 224pp. with b/w illustrations. Xmas gift note on the front free endpaper, light creasing from page handling and light soil to outer edges. DJ has edge/rub wear. No printed price on the flap. Actual book for sale pictured. 15.9 x 23.7 x 2.3cm, wt700g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… 9¾" tall.
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Da: Equipment for Living, Aliquippa, PA, U.S.A.Equipment for Living
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Condizione: new.
Editore: Macmillan of Canada A Division of Canada Publishing Corporation, Toronto
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Da: Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, CanadaPast Pages
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Hard Cover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. BOOK: Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: A Memoir. EDITED BY: Pat Kennedy and G. S. Fischer. DESIGN BY: Peter Maher. ALL PHOTOGRAPHS ARE: from the personal collection of Jack…Nissen. CONTENTS: Maps; Introduction; Chapter One Recruit to Secrecy; Chapter Two Pre-War British Radar; Chapter Three Pre-War German Radar; Chapter Four The Outbreak of War; Chapter Five A Scottish Testing-Ground; Chapter Six Deception and Interception; Chapter Seven Radar and the Battle of Britain; Chapter Eight The Tizard Mission to Ottawa and Washington; Chapter Nine Ghost Station; Chapter Ten Night Attacks; Chapter Eleven Navigational Radar--The Tide Turns; Chapter Twelve "Jubilee"; Chapter Thirteen Freya; Chapter Fourteen Dieppe Post-Mortem--The Tide Builds; Chapter Fifteen D-Day; Afterword; Index. SYNOPSIS: The Second World War was the first "technological war", and no technology was more important in winning that war than radar. The British desperately needed a tool that would warn of bombing or U-boat attacks. Here, for the first time, is the complete drama of the secret race to develop radar, told in the words of one of the key players. In 1937, Jack Nissen, a young Cockney with a genius for electronics, was recruited by the British Air Ministry to work on the even newer development of radar technology. This is the suspense-filled story of the experiments, the inventive breakthroughs, the electronic eavesdropping, and the sheer good luck that sometimes determined the outcome. Nissen, sent to operate the prototype radar installation at Bolt Head, discovered a way to use radar to guide fighter pilots directly, rather than just the detect enemy aircraft. He used this "secret" to circumvent central Bomber Command, and was caught, suspected of being a spy. But his brilliant idea was soon seen as the key needed to scramble fighters more quickly, and he was sent to build a new type of radar station on the south coast. In 1942 Nissen volunteered for a dangerous commando mission to obtain German radar equipment at Dieppe so the British could determine how to jam it in preparation for the huge invasion being planned. Because of the invaluable knowledge he carried, he was assigned a bodyguard--South Saskatchewan Rifles--who had orders to kill him if he fell into enemy hands. Nissen and one Canadian were the only survivors of the special group. But what he found out during that dreadful mission went a long way towards making D-Day and the eventual liberation of Europe possible. Jack Nissen was educated at Mansford Technical School and Regent Street Polytechnic in London. He worked for E.M.I., the hi-fi giant, before being stationed at Bawdsey, England's first radar station. After perfecting various uses of radar for the European front, Nissen spent the later part of the war developing mobile radar units in the African campaign. A. W. Cockerill served during the second World War in the British Army, and then in the Corps of Royal Engineers until 1951. He later combined engineering with journalism, contributing articles to magazines and newspapers. Mr. Cockerill has also written short stories, plays, musicals, and two books. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Don Besco (illustratore).
