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Radar

Examines the history of radar, focusing on its role in the Allies’ victory in WWII–from the Chain Home Network, rudimentary radar towers that ringed England’s eastern coast, to the role of Boston’s MIT in developing a smuggled English secret, the cavity of magnetron.

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Season 5

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Episode 1: Polio Vaccine

Episode 2: The Motion Picture

Episode 3: Satellites.

Episode 4: Radio: Out Of Thin Air

Episode 5: The Electric Light

Episode 6: The Phonograph

Episode 7: Great Towers in the Sky

Episode 8: Household Wonders.

Episode 9: Radar

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