Documentary
- Duration: 3 mins
- Publication date: 02 Sep 2022
Abstract
Alan Dower Blumlein was a great contributor in the development of the radar system during World War 2, before tragically dying in a plane crash while experimenting with the system. Starting work in International Western Electric Corporation in 1925, working on telephone interference, then moving to the Columbia gramophone company. He made advances in telecoms, sound recording, stereophonic audio, television and the H2S RADAR.
- Keywords:
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- IET
- International Electric Corporation
- black-level clamping
- electric and musical industries
- electronics engineer and inventor
- moving coil disc cutting head
- radar system during World War 2
- telephone interference
- telephone interference noise
- television research
- the slot antenna
- the world's first high definition television service