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Great reference material on DVD-ROM.  Learn everything you need to know about radiation.  Each book is in high resolution PDF format.

 

 

MIT Radiation Laboratory Series

Full 28 Volume Set on DVD

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The Radiation Laboratory, commonly called the Rad Lab, was located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (US) and functioned from October 1940 until December 31, 1945. Alfred Lee Loomis, a millionaire and physicist who headed his own private laboratory, selected the location for the laboratory on the campus, named it the MIT Radiation Laboratory, and arranged funding for the Rad Lab until federal money was allocated. It was formed by, and initially operated under, the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), a commission established by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt with Vannevar Bush as its chairman. In 1941, the NDRC was enlarged to become the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), with Bush remaining as chairman. Lee A. DuBridge served as the Rad Lab director. This facility was responsible for developing most of the microwave radars used by the United States during World War II, including the H2X radar used for bomb-aiming and the subsequent improvements to the initial H2X radar's technology.

The Rad Lab also developed Loran-A, the first worldwide radio navigation system, which originally was known as "LRN" for Loomis Radio Navigation, after Alfred Lee Loomis, who invented it and played a crucial role in military research and development during World War II. It remained the most widely used long-range navigation system until it was gradually replaced by Loran-C. Loran-A was discontinued by the United States in 1980.

 

After the end of World War II, the United States government continued to pay key people who had worked at the Radiation Laboratory for six months to enable them to write about their work.

From the forward of each book:

The tremendous research and development effort that went into the development of radar and related techniques during World War II resulted not only in hundreds of radar sets for military (and some for possible peacetime) use but also in a great body of information and new techniques in the electronics and high-frequency fields. Because this basic material may be of great value to science and engineering, it seemed most important to publish it as soon as security permitted.

However, an altruistic drive to publish the Lab's achievements in open literature was not the only impetus.

As C. C. Bissell observes: The imposing 27-volume [sic] Radiation Lab Series was not only a technological statement, but also a political statement about the role the United States was to play in the post-war world that in the post-war world the United States would be the intellectual driving force of science and technology, as well as the economic and political super power.

 

 

1. Radar System Engineering, Volume 1 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1947, by Louis N. Ridenour.  

   

2. Radar Aids to Navigation, Volume 2 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1947, by John S. Hall.

   

3. Radar Beacons, Volume 3 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1947, by Arthur Roberts.

  

4. Loran, Volume 4 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948, J. A. Pierce, A. A. McKenzie, and R. H. Woodward.  

   

5. Pulse Generators, Volume 5 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948, by G. N. Glasoe and J. V. Lebacqz.  

   

6. Microwave Magnetrons, Volume 6 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948, by George B. Collins.  

   

7. Klystrons and Microwave Triodes, Volume 7 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948, by Donald R. Hamilton, Julian K. Knipp, and J. B. Horner Kuper.  

   

8. Principles of Microwave Circuits, Volume 8 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948, by C. G. Montgomery, R. H. Dicke, and E. M. Purcell.  

   

9. Microwave Transmission Circuits, Volume 9 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948, by George L. Ragan.

   

10. Waveguide Handbook, Volume 10 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1951, by N. Marcuvitz.  

   

11. Technique of Microwave Measurements, Volume 11 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1947, by Carol G. Montgomery.  

   

12. Microwave Antenna Theory and Design, Volume 12 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1949, by Samuel Silver.  

   

13. Propagation of Short Radio Waves, Volume 13 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1951, by Donald E. Kerr.  

   

14. Microwave Duplexers, Volume 14 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948, by Louis D. Smullin and Carol G. Montgomery.  

   

15. Crystal Rectifiers, Volume 15 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948, by Henry C. Torrey and Charles A. Whitmer.  

   

16. Microwave Mixers, Volume 16 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948, by Robert V. Pound.

   

17. Components Handbook, Volume 17 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1949, by John F. Blackburn.

   

18. Vacuum Tube Amplifiers, Volume 18 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948, by George E. Valley, Jr. and Henry Wallman.  

   

19. Waveforms, Volume 19 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1949, by Britton Chance, Vernon Hughes, Edward F. MacNichol, Jr., David Sayre, and Frederic C. Williams.  

   

20. Electronic Time Measurements, Volume 20 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1949, by Britton Chance, Robert I. Hulsizer, Edward F. MacNichol, Jr., and Frederic C. Williams.  

   

21. Electronic Instruments, Volume 21 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948, by Ivan A. Greenwood, Jr., J. Vance Holdam, Jr., and Duncan MacRae, Jr.  

   

22. Cathode Ray Tube Displays, Volume 22 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948, by Theodore Soller, Merle A. Star, and George E. Valley, Jr.  

   

23. Microwave Receivers, Volume 23 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw- Hill, New York, 1948, by S. N. Van Voorhis.  

   

24. Threshold Signals, Volume 24 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1950, by James L. Lawson and George E. Uhlenbeck.  

   

25. Theory of Servomechanisms, Volume 25 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1947, by Hubert M. James, Nathaniel B. Nichols, and Ralph S. Phillips.  

   

26. Radar Scanners and Radomes, Volume 26 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948, by W. M. Cady, M. B. Karelitz, and Louis A. Turner.  

   

27. Computing Mechanisms and Linkages, Volume 27 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1948, by Antonin Svoboda.  

   

28. Index, Volume 28 of MIT Radiation Laboratory Series. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1953, by Keith Henney, editor.  

 

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