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(French?) WW2 Radar

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What on earth was thing gadget? Looks more audio than radar to me.

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...and you would be correct to say audio, seeing that it is a sound locator. it could track slow flying Zeppelins and Gotha bombers at close ranges, just!!!
 
Ex-Bay said:
What on earth was thing gadget? Looks more audio than radar to me.

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It could be one of those listening devices that are used to detect oncoming aircraft. We had them in WW2, large concrete structures that focused sound onto a transducer. They were superseded by radar.
 
metimmee said:
They were superseded by radar.
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Yes the big ones in Kent were, cause they didn't work. Though the army used smaller ones like the one in the photo, until a working gun laying and searchlight aiming radar was developed. The sound locators did lead to a device called an octave filter to cancel out unwanted sounds from non-aircraft noise sources. The device was essentially the first graphic equaliser.
 
Looks more like an 1800's Pikey fair whirrly gig type thingy to me ::P:
 
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