Historical Rare Item from MIT - M.I.T. Radiation Lab - RAD LAB - WW2 Radar lab

Description

This is a very unique item. This is an oscilloscope purchased at an estate sale of a late D.C. Area cryptographer. There were other items purchased that were from M.I.T. Massachusetts institute of technology and this was in that lot of items. During WW2 MIT had a radiation laboratory to help develop radar. This was manufactured by Galvin Industries which eventually became Motorola. Most of the scientists who worked at building 20 at MIT went on to get the Nobel Prize for their work. Own a piece of history!! The most amazing part to is it still works!!!
Edward Purcell, Jerome Lettvin and
Alfred Loomis are two notable names that worked on it. In the years that followed 9 members of the team went on to get the Nobel Prize.
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During the next five years, the Radiation Laboratory made stunning contributions to the development of microwave radar technology in support of the war effort. Inventions included airborne bombing radars, shipboard search radars, harbor and coastal defense radars, gun-laying radars, ground-controlled approach radars for aircraft blind landing, interrogate-friend-or-foe beacon systems, and the long-range navigation (LORAN) system. Some of the most critical contributions of the Radiation Laboratory were the microwave early-warning (MEW) radars, which effectively nullified the V-1 threat to London, and air-to-surface vessel (ASV) radars, which turned the tide on the U-boat threat to Allied shipping. In November 1942, U-boats claimed 117 Allied ships. Less than a year later, in the two-month period of September to October 1943, only 9 Allied ships were sunk, while a total of 25 U-boats were destroyed by aircraft equipped with ASV radars (Buderi, pp. 155–169)."