The development of radar, IFF and other navigational systems were a key factor in determining the outcome of the war in the air. Williams from the University of Manchester where he had worked on the development of an automatic curve follower for the Hartree Differential Analyser, a famous mechanical calculator constructed there by Arthur Porter in the early thirties. The circuit design group was primarily headed by Freddie C. Shortly after joining, around May 1940, he was posted to Worth Matravers to where the main group had been transferred. Norman joined the group centered at the RAF station of St Athen in South Wales where the primary focus was the development of airborne radar. Rennie Whitehead, who had just graduated in Physics from Manchester, where Blackett was Professor of Physics. Lewis from the Cavendish Laboratories at Cambridge and J. Amongst this group were two other future Canadians, W.B. Around 1939/40, he was one of a very select group scientists and engineers that were asked to join one of the research groups engaged in the development of various types of radar. Norman’s talents and expertise as a circuit designer were recognized at an early stage of his career. Its location was subsequently changed three times: first, in September 1939, one day before war was declared, to Dundee in Scotland as AMRE (Air Ministry Research Establishment) Dundee next in May 1940 to Worth Matravers, a couple of miles west of the town of Swanage in Dorset, on the south coast of England and finally in May 1942, to Great Malvern in Worcestershire where it was known as the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE). This embryonic research establishment, first established at Orfordness, was moved to Bawdsey Manor on the coast of Suffolk in May 1936 and was initially called the Bawdsey Research Station. Blackett was a member, that resulted in the establishment of a secret research station to be devoted to the development of Radar and IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) systems. It was the foresight of the Tizard Committee, of which Professor P.M.S. At the time of his death they had been married for 64 years. It was during his time with Halcyon Radio that he met Joan who he subsequently married. A good system in those days sold for about 44 guineas, the equivalent of $200 US in the late 1930’s.
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Some of his early work related to the design of a projection TV scheme, but the real bread and butter was in the design and sale of commercial TV sets. Television design in those early days was something of an art that demanded special practical skills, an inventive mind and an aptitude for circuit design. This was followed by a one-year spell as a design engineer in TV research with Burndept Radio.
In about 1935, Norman joined Halcyon Radio working initially on radio receiver design as a junior engineer and rising to the position of senior TV designer. In the years before the Second World War, Baird had demonstrated the practical feasibility of Television, and the pentode tube and the superheterodyne receiver had become a reality. Without the opportunity of a formal education at a higher level due the economic depression of the early 1930’s but with keen interests in radio design, he began his career in the radio repair section of a big London store. Norman was born at Herne Bay, England, on December 22nd, 1915, in the early stages of the First World War. All of this was accomplished without any earned degree. At the University of Toronto was the founding Director of the Institute of Biomedical Electronics, subsequently the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, and a Professor of Electrical Engineering. His contributions to the University of Toronto were typical of the contributions he made throughout a unique and remarkable scientific career that extended over 45 years. Norman Moody, who died in Victoria on October 23rd, 2004, at the age of 88, was an individual of many talents. Nelms - DRTE and Canada's Leap into Space
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