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There is a long standing dispute between WW2 engineers at Raytheon vs. those at the UK's Telecommunications Research Establishment [0] about who was the first t
by KineticLensman 5y ago
There is a long standing dispute between WW2 engineers at Raytheon vs. those at the UK's Telecommunications Research Establishment [0] about who was the first to cook sausages on a radar set.
(I previously worked at one of the modern successor organisations to TRE. I distinctly remember as a very young software engineer being told by an elderly staff scientist that his purpose in life "was to help confound the Queen's enemies and keep the poor bugger on the battlefield alive whilst he did so")
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Research_Establishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Research_Es...