Radar and the raft : a true story about a scientific marvel, the lives it saved, and the world it changed
(2024)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
Y/940.545/LANTOS,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Nonfiction Y/940.545/LANTOS,J Available

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