The Tizard Mission, officially the British Technical and Scientific Mission, was a delegation from the United Kingdom that visited the United States during...
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planned invasion of the UK should succeed. Tizard led a British technical mission, known as the Tizard Mission, containing details and examples of British...
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start on the path that led to the famous Tizard Mission in late August 1940. Ironically, by the time the Mission was being planned, the Norden had been...
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Sir Henry Thomas Tizard GCB AFC FRS (23 August 1885 – 9 October 1959) was an English chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College, who developed the...
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Tube Alloys (section Tizard mission)
rest of the world, Russia in particular. In August 1940, a British mission, led by Tizard and with members including Cockcroft, was sent to America to create...
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ASV Mark II radar (section Tizard mission)
greatly improved Mk. II. A single Mk. II was shipped to the US during the Tizard Mission in December 1940, where it demonstrated its ability to detect large...
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photoelectric fuze and a radio fuze, with United States during the Tizard Mission in late 1940. To work in shells, a fuze needed to be miniaturized, survive...
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the Tizard Mission, he shared British technology with his counterparts in the United States. Later in the war, the fruits of the Tizard Mission came...
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researching radar, which they termed Radio Direction Finder (RDF). Their Tizard Mission to the US showed how much more advanced they were with some of the key...
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SCR-720 (section Tizard Mission)
antenna. The concept was revealed to US researchers as part of the Tizard Mission during the summer of 1940, and the RadLab decided to press on with the...
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