Pye: Radio

















Note: This is a sub-section of Pye
1939 B. J. Edwards specified the "Pye strip" of five EF50 valves for a high-performance amplifier for a 1939 television set. E. V. Appleton remembered seeing it at the Radio Olympia exhibition and used it for development of low-level radar. The EF50 valve was made by Philips in Holland; Charles Stanley sent three trucks and snatched the remaining valves from Eindhoven before the Germans arrived. Pye had the first airborne radar operational in 1940, and developed Asdic for mass production.
See Also
Sources of Information
- Biography of Charles Stanley, ODNB [1]