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WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 5

By Ottilie Kestenholz · 4 parts · 15 h 9 min · English

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New York, Tuxedo Park and Cambridge, 1887 to 1975. Alfred Lee Loomis made a fortune underwriting electric utilities in the 1920s, took it out in cash before the crash, and spent the next decade running a private physics laboratory in a stone house above a gated village where he answered to nobody. In 1940 he was handed a British cavity magnetron and a committee with no staff, and he built the Radiation Laboratory at MIT out of borrowed physicists, university overhead and his own money until the government caught up. The laboratory made microwave radar, put it into aircraft, gun directors and navigation chains, and dissolved itself on the last day of 1945. Loomis then destroyed his papers and disappeared. Covers Alfred Lee Loomis and Radiation Laboratory.

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Books in this series

  1. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 1

    4 parts · 15 h 22 min

  2. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 2

    4 parts · 14 h 47 min

  3. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 3

    4 parts · 15 h 35 min

  4. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 4

    4 parts · 15 h 27 min

  5. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 5

    4 parts · 15 h 9 min

  6. WHAT IT WAS MADE FOR Book 6

    4 parts · 17 h 45 min