25-11-2016, 07:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 25-11-2016, 07:37 PM by Mike Watterson.)
Think of the savings if BBC had launched in 1949 instead and with 625 lines! 
We can't know the "unknowable", the "other trouser leg of time" may not exist. What happened is what we got!
The USA didn't stop TV production till maybe 1942 and never closed TV transmission. It's also impossible to say what the effect was on Radar. Philips managing to get out loads of gear and diamond dies at the last minute from Netherlands was maybe more important, as was the Magnetron and semiconductor mixer diodes.
See The EF50, the tube that won the war
http://www.dos4ever.com/EF50/EF50.html
Edit
This was a HUGE loss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Blumlein#H2S_radar
We can't know the "unknowable", the "other trouser leg of time" may not exist. What happened is what we got!
The USA didn't stop TV production till maybe 1942 and never closed TV transmission. It's also impossible to say what the effect was on Radar. Philips managing to get out loads of gear and diamond dies at the last minute from Netherlands was maybe more important, as was the Magnetron and semiconductor mixer diodes.
See The EF50, the tube that won the war
http://www.dos4ever.com/EF50/EF50.html
Edit
This was a HUGE loss.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Blumlein#H2S_radar
