[time-nuts] Alfred Loomis - an early time nut

[Gary Woods]

On Wed, 13 May 2020 09:23:45 -0600, you wrote:

>Given all his accomplishments, he must have been a
>"Renaissance Time_Nut"!

My favorite quote from a bio of Loomis; he was shown the super secret
British magnetron, and an engineer was trying to explain how it made
high-power microwaves.
Loomis listened and said, "Oh, it's a whistle!"
(I dealt with it's megawatt descendent in the APS-20 radar).
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