NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Jet Engine, Pea Galaxy, Military Strategy
20 Feb 2020
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The roots of big science- the us prepares itself for another war. Military strategy called blitzkrieg which used superior tanks and planes to bombard enemy into quick submission on the ground and in air. Investment on big cooperations and institutions with proven track record in productive research. Osrd gave money to technologies of the future including radar and computers. Military-industrial complex: science has an increasingly bigger role in society; interdependence of science and technology; increasing demands for more money, individuals and instruments for research, state use of research. Airplane technology improved during interwar periods: jet engine technology. Good example of the increasing trend to big science . Competition between military during war years allowed for solutions to problems of jet propulsion; without war developments would have been delayed by decades. After wwii they were also helped by hefty cold war budget: 90% of airplane research funded by military by 1960s: radar.
