Radar and the raft : a true story about a scientific marvel, the lives it saved, and the world it changed
(2024)
By:
Lantos, Jeff
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Y/940.545/LANTOS,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2024
DESCRIPTION
186 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781623543457, 1623543452 :, 1623543452, 9781623543457
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Follow two storylines-one about the scientific discoveries that led to the creation of radar, the other about people stranded on a raft in WWII-that come together when radar finds the raft"--
Ages 10 and up
Grades 4-6
1090L
CONTENTS
Cast of characters --
Prologue --
Chapter 1: -- Off to Africa --
Chapter 2: -- Escape --
Chapter 3: -- Current events --
Chapter 4: -- Westward ho! --
Chapter 5: -- Making the connection --
Chapter 6: -- Tin fish --
Chapter 7: -- Maxwell's equations and Hertz's wave --
Chapter 8: -- Wait begins --
Chapter 9: -- Humble beginning --
Chapter 10: -- Going solo --
Chapter 11: -- Microwaves --
Chapter 12: -- Answered prayers --
Chapter 13: -- Destination Trinidad --
Chapter 14: -- Reconciliation --
Chapter 15: -- Eight decades of radar --
Epilogue