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WWII Technologies. Technologies. Radar Sonar B-29 Super fortress V-2 Rocket Aeronautics (Jet power) Aircraft carrier Tanks . Radar R adio D etection and R anging . Heinrich Hertz invented in 1886-1887 Use of radio waves to detect aircraft and ships
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Technologies • Radar • Sonar • B-29 Super fortress • V-2 Rocket • Aeronautics (Jet power) • Aircraft carrier • Tanks
RadarRadio Detection and Ranging • Heinrich Hertz invented in 1886-1887 • Use of radio waves to detect aircraft and ships • Radio waves hit object and reflect back to monitoring center. “Bats use this to hunt and fly”
SonarSound Navigation and Ranging • Device used to measure the distance of an object underwater “Dolphins use this to locate food” • Used by ships to locate submarines
B-29 Super Fortress • Boeing. 1939 • Mostly used in Pacific • Crew of 10 • 12 .50 caliber machine guns • Carry 20,000 pounds payload • Range over 5,000 miles, fly at 32,000 feet • Dropped atomic bombs • Used until 1960
V-2 Rockets • Designed by German scientist Wernher von Braun 1932 • Used to bomb Britain • Von Braun escaped to the U.S. and became lead scientist in U.S. rocketry program (military and NASA)
WW2 Airplanes/Jets • P-51 Mustang • BF-109 Messerschmitt • RAF Spitfire/Hurricane
Tanks • U.S. Sherman Tank • Nazi Panzer & Tiger • Soviet T-34 • British Crusader