4THE MANCHESTER MACHINES
Christopher Burton and Simon Lavington
MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS …
Whilst mercury delay-line storage systems were being developed at NPL, Cambridge and elsewhere, another line of research had been started in America. Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had attempted to memorise, or store, a radar scan using electrostatic charges inside a cathode ray tube (CRT). These experiments were seen by F C (Freddie) Williams, one of the key British electronics designers at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) at Malvern. Williams was invited to visit the United States in late 1945 and in mid 1946 to help write a series of books describing all the developments in the radar field that had ...
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