Part III The GEC Laboratories, the Second World
War and Retirement
15 The Post-war Years 1919–1930
319
15.1 Post-war Germany
319
15.2 Improvements Relating to Airships
321
15.3 The GEC Laboratories
323
15.3.1 The Laboratories’ First Year
325
15.4 Europe and America, November 1918 to July 1924
329
15.4.1 Events in Germany
329
15.4.2 Events in the United Kingdom
332
15.4.3 Sweden, November 1919–21
335
15.5 More Matters Financial
344
15.6 The GEC Laboratories and Developments
Over the Decade
348
15.6.1 Improvements in Early Transmitting Valves
350
15.7 And Finally …the Decade Comes to a Close
353
16 The GEC Laboratories 1930–1939
365
16.1 The 1931 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
365
16.2 The Development of High-Power Radio
Transmitting Valves
367
16.2.1 CAT Valve Construction
368
16.2.2 CAT Valve Cooling
370
16.2.3 CAT Valve Modulation
371
16.2.4 CAT Valves and British Broadcasting
372
16.3 Fritz Jacob Haber—Dispossession and Disillusion
375
16.4 11 Carlyle Road Cambridge, May 1934
383
16.5 September 1934, a Professional Pinnacle—BBC
Droitwich
392
16.5.1 Droitwich, Construction and Opening
392
16.6 Wembley Through the 1930s and the Outbreak
of War
396
17 The GEC Laboratories 1939–1949
405
17.1 The Wembley Laboratories During the War
405
17.2 Airborne Radars; the Context of Robert’s War
408
17.3 Robert’s War 1939–1945
411
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