Re: 50 ohm thermocouples was RE: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Issue with homemade diode power sensor for HP meters
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The reference is "Tuxedo Park" by Jennet Conant, a marvelous book! I use this as well as others when I talk about electrotechnology and the importance of WWII to my students.? However the facts as presented were incomplete/incorrect.
For those not aware of it, the Rad Lab existed in Tuxedo Park, NY as a personal project of Alfred Loomis before WW II.?
No. Loomis, made rich by the electrification of America, pulled out of the stock market before the crash and used part of his considerable fortune to establish a personal research lab in a mansion purchased from a now-broke millionaire, so that he could pursue his true love: science.
Loomis was also involved in building the cyclotron at Berkeley.?Yes, He was friends with Lawrence and funded him.
Luis Alvarez made an off hand comment to Loomis one evening that if they couldn't get copper they could use aluminum.? Alvarez was blow away the next morning when Loomis told him it was not possible to build the magnets with aluminum wire for any of the designs being discussed.? Loomis had stayed up all night making the calculations.
No, it was a few days later, and the reason was that the cost savings was not sufficient to justify the increased size. (pp 143-144 in "Tuxedo Park").
Loomis invented LORAN in the shower after a conversation with a Brit who was visiting.? They wanted to name it after him, but he declined so they came up with a phrase to match the acronym.? Bowen had given Loomis the patents for Gee, the British system, which he adapted to a longer wave system. He did add the master/slave idea.
Loomis closed the Rad Lab at the end of the war because he didn't think the government should be involved in research except in exigent circumstances such as war.
Loomis closed his personal lab at Tuxedo Park after he moved to MIT to help run the Rad Lab there. He never re-opened it after the war, he had moved on.? His personal lab did research long before the war. He never sought fame, only putting his name on the first patent in a field, like ultrasonics, or brain wave research. He left the follow-up work for others. He did not have any misgivings about the govt in research.
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