Wars and Discoveries by Philippe Bauduin
"So it was in the Thirties that numerous commodities, appliances and devices taken for granted today were discovered : antibiotics, sulphonamides, radar, turbo-jets, synthetic rubber, mineral oils, radiotelephony, and artificial intelligence… but only the outbreak of the Second World War could give rise to their development and industrial use. In the pages that follow is an account of 50 discoveries chosen at will from many others, that, in giving the reader a wider understanding of technological advance, sheds new light too, on the scale of Operation Overlord. Visitors to the Landing Beaches may thus appreciate how humanity as a whole has profited from all the inventions collated in the Battle of Normandy."
The author was 14 years old when he met for the for the first time the British genius on the fields of Battle of Normandy. Now retired (career in the Air Force as an officer-interpreter and then civil research engineer), he lives in his small country house, a former pumping built by the British engineer in 1944, where he spends much of his time doing to continue the fame of the Royal Engineers and to write about their achievements in Normandy. In particular, he published articles on the construction of airfields and the logistics associated to the Overlord operation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9782912925251 |
| ISBN 10 | 2912925258 |
| Title | Wars and Discoveries |
| Author | Philippe Bauduin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | OREP |
| Year published | 2008-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 76 |
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