US Patent: 2,480,208 - Radio distance and direction indicator


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US Patent: 2,480,208

Radio distance and direction indicator

Patentee:

Luis W. Alvarez (exact or similar names) - Santa Fe, NM

USPTO Classifications:

235/61.0NV, 342/142, 342/183, 342/184, 342/368, 89/1.51, 89/1.56, 89/1.61

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Assignees:

United States of America - Washington, DC

Manufacturer:

Not known to have been produced

Witnesses:

Unknown

Patent Dates:
Applied:	Jun. 27, 1944
Granted:	Aug. 30, 1949

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Description:

This patent covers the key ideas behind radar. The inventor, Luis Alvarez, was a highly respected physicist who would be awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1968 for his invention of the hydrogen bubble chamber and the associated methods of data analysis.