Radar | The Rad Lab | 3

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

As German bombers raze England’s cities, American scientists race to build the world’s first air-to-air radar system. But building the system is only half the challenge. If the scientists succeed, they’ll also have to fit the world’s most cutting-edge technology inside the nose of a B-18 – a space that’s smaller than a shoe box.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to American innovations, add free on Amazon Music, download
0:06.0	the app today.
0:07.0	Hello?
0:08.0	Hello?
0:09.0	It's a little after 11 p.m. on November 14, 1940.
0:23.0	Coventry England is under attack.
0:25.8	When inside a military bunker, the telephone line has just gone dead.
0:30.3	A young lieutenant carefully sets the phone back down on its cradle.
0:33.9	His skin is pale and clammy, and his upper lip is twitching with fear.
0:38.1	But he tries to keep his face perfectly still as he sets off through the bunker, back
0:42.7	towards his men.
0:45.4	For the past three hours, German planes have been pummeling the city with incendiary bombs,
0:50.4	a new kind of bomb designed to ignite fires.
0:53.5	Stone buildings glow red from the heat.
0:56.0	The smell of burning flesh fills the air.
0:59.2	Black smoke chokes out every last drop of moonlight.
1:03.2	The lieutenant approaches the soldiers, manning the anti-aircraft gun, a mounted weapon that's
1:07.8	more like a cannon than a rifle.
1:10.1	He has to yell over the noise.
1:12.2	The communications are down.
1:14.0	I can't reach the commanding officers for orders.
1:17.0	We're on our own.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.