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Part of how these things always work: - War effort requires a whole lot of capital investment -- factories built, equipment developed, people come up to speed,

by mlyle 4y ago

Part of how these things always work: - War effort requires a whole lot of capital investment -- factories built, equipment developed, people come up to speed, etc. - Postwar, radar is still important, but the overall government expenditure falls. - Much of the capital (manufacturing and expertise) searches for a peacetime use... and what's the low hanging fruit? Telecommunications.

tyingq 4y ago
That's a good observation, but the telecom and radar did sort of go hand-in-hand. The radar is typically close to the action, but the information needs to get back to HDQ, usually hundreds of miles away. So being able to ad-hoc get lots of telephone connections and/or tty links from a radar site back to the generals was a common need. That is, war money was being applied to both.