David E. Fisher
Author of Tube: The Invention of Television
About the Author
David E. Fisher is currently a professor of cosmochemistry and environmental sciences at the University of Miami.
Works by David E. Fisher
A Summer Bright and Terrible: Winston Churchill, Lord Dowding, Radar, and the Impossible Triumph of the Battle of… (2005) 52 copies, 1 review
Across the Top of the World: To the North Pole by Sled, Balloon, Airplane and Nuclear Icebreaker (1992) 42 copies, 1 review
Operasjon Dallas 1 2 copies
Operasjon Dallas 2 1 copy
地球の誕生―空間と時間と想像力のうた (りぶらりあ選書) 1 copy
Tube: the Invention of Television, pre-publiclation booklet — Author — 1 copy
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- 1932-06-22
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- male
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- Works
- 27
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- 437
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- 3.9
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- 5
- ISBNs
- 48
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- 2
Lord Hugh Dowding, Air Chief Marshall of the Royal Air Force, Head of Fighter Command, First Baron of Bentley Priory, lived in the grip of unseen spirits. In thrall of the supernatural world, he talked to the ghosts of his dead pilots, proclaimed that Hitler was defeated only by the personal intervention of God, and believed in the existence of fairies. How could it be that such a man should be put in charge of evaluating technical developments for the British air ministry? Yet it was he, fighting the inertia of the bureaucrats who ruled the Air Force, who brought the modern multi-gunned fighter into existence. And he insisted that his scientists investigate the mysterious invisible rays that would prove to be the salvation of Britain: radar.… (more)