{"id":2227,"date":"2011-03-14T21:10:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T21:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2011-03-14T21:10:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T21:10:04","slug":"the-tizard-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/the-tizard-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tizard Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; visual detection was often hampered by the island nation&#8217;s overcast skies, and the technological means of spotting aircraft were primitive at best. One scheme involved a massive concrete &#8220;sound mirror&#8221; that picked up the noise of an approaching engine\u2014unfortunately, though, the device wouldn&#8217;t have been able to distinguish between the invading Luftwaffe and a passing British lorry. A technological breakthrough was needed&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704005404576177524195961348.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">Review of &#8220;The Tizard Mission&#8221; by Stephen Phelps<\/a> at the Wall Street Journal, 2011-03-12<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amusingly, alongside the review is a link to an article <em>Opinion: Japan Does Not Face Another Chernobyl<\/em> by a William Tucker. Obviously this isn&#8217;t the William S Tucker who was involved in the development of sound ranging!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; visual detection was often hampered by the island nation&#8217;s overcast skies, and the technological means of spotting aircraft were primitive at best. One scheme involved a massive concrete &#8220;sound mirror&#8221; that picked up the noise of an approaching engine\u2014unfortunately, though, the device wouldn&#8217;t have been able to distinguish between the invading Luftwaffe and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-references","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}