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    Christian Hülsmeyer (Huelsmeyer) (25 December 1881 – 31 January 1957) was a German inventor, physicist and entrepreneur. He is credited with the invention...
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    principles were becoming widely available, and it was German inventor Christian Hülsmeyer who first used them to build a simple ship detection device intended...
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    radar system for detecting ships, similar to a system developed by Christian Hülsmeyer. Operating in the 50 cm range it could detect ships up to 10 km away...
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    Heppingen Max von Schillings (1868–1933), composer and conductor Christian Hülsmeyer (1891–1957), inventor, physicist and entrepreneur, died in Ahrweiler...
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    leadership. Honorary chair of IEEE RadarConf 2020, Florence. 2019 Christian Hülsmeyer Award from the German Institute of Navigation (DGON), with the motivation...
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    of any reflections. Such a system saw patents issued to Germany's Christian Hülsmeyer in 1904, and widespread experimentation with the basic concept was...
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  • that they, like light, were reflected by metal surfaces. In 1904, Christian Hülsmeyer obtained German and foreign patents for an apparatus, the Telemobilskop...
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    but he did nothing more with this observation. The German inventor Christian Hülsmeyer was the first to use radio waves to detect "the presence of distant...
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    Boundary layer theory by Ludwig Prandtl 1904: First radar system by Christian Hülsmeyer (Telemobiloscope) 1905: Mass–energy equivalence (E = mc2) and special...
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  • including the world's first jet-powered flying wing, the Horten Ho 229. Christian Hülsmeyer: German inventor of the Telemobilskop, a radio-based detector of...
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