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Contents

• Contents
• Preface: World War II Ends and the Security Curtain is Dropped
• The Magnetron, Source of the Microwave Radiation
• The Pattern of the Radiation from the Horn in Space
• Horn Antenna to Horn Antenna and through a Bent Tube and Out
• Microwave Radiation through Wood, Plastic, and Water
• Microwave Radiation Transmission Through Wood and Reflection from Water
• The Optical Properties of Microwave Radiation
• Microwave Radiation and a ''Burning Glass'' Igniting Steel Wool
• Microwaves Reflected from a Water Surface
• Standing Waves in A Glass Tube Filled with Neon Gas
• Microwaves Focused by a Parabolic Reflector
• Finally, the Crew and the Stage Property
• Being a Nice Guy, Fritz Goro Took a Picture of Me Fiddling with a RADAR Antenna on the Roof of an MIT Building

A Photographic Essay on the Properties of Microwave Radiation

Photographer, Fritz Goro, Life Magazine,
Set Designer, M.W.P. Strandberg, Research Associate
Radiation Laboratory MIT, September 1945
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA 02139 USA

Abstract:

It was September 1945, the end of WWII, and Microwave RADAR was part of the wonderful story to be told during the rush to demobilization.