Post by Soutpeel on Jun 19, 2017 13:30:20 GMT 7
Little-known inventor of stereo and crucial WWII radar to be honoured with film on 75th anniversary of his death
The unsung inventor of stereo sound, and a radar system which helped Britain win the Second World War, is finally to be remembered in a new film made by the Universal Music Group.
Historians say electrical engineer Alan Dower Blumlein was as critical to the war effort as colleagues Alan Turing and Sir Bernard Lovell, yet few people have heard of him.
Now his life and work are being developed into an as yet untitled film project by Universal. The film could help Blumlein become a household name, in a similar way to Turing following The Imitation Game, which chronicled his work to crack the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park.
On the 75th anniversary of his death historian John Bromley-Davenport, biographer of Lovell, said Blumlein deserved far greater recognition.
In the 1940s, Blumlein was crucial in the development the H2D airborne radar system which was fitted to Halifax bombers to help them identify targets in the dark. The invention would prove critical in helping the allies defeat Hitler’s Germany.
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/06/19/little-known-inventor-stereo-crucial-wwii-radar-honoured-film/
The unsung inventor of stereo sound, and a radar system which helped Britain win the Second World War, is finally to be remembered in a new film made by the Universal Music Group.
Historians say electrical engineer Alan Dower Blumlein was as critical to the war effort as colleagues Alan Turing and Sir Bernard Lovell, yet few people have heard of him.
Now his life and work are being developed into an as yet untitled film project by Universal. The film could help Blumlein become a household name, in a similar way to Turing following The Imitation Game, which chronicled his work to crack the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park.
On the 75th anniversary of his death historian John Bromley-Davenport, biographer of Lovell, said Blumlein deserved far greater recognition.
In the 1940s, Blumlein was crucial in the development the H2D airborne radar system which was fitted to Halifax bombers to help them identify targets in the dark. The invention would prove critical in helping the allies defeat Hitler’s Germany.
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/06/19/little-known-inventor-stereo-crucial-wwii-radar-honoured-film/
