In the labor people's name: Development of 60-kW magnetrons in the artificial famine plagued Ukraine in the early 1930's

The First IEEE Milestone in Ukraine Celebrates "Zenit Parabolic Reflector L-Band Pulsed Radar, 1938" in Kharkiv [Around the Globe]

“…Remarkably, the entire USSR research community at that time considered both the pulse method and the shorter waves to be dead ends [2]. The researchers also h ad t o ove r come d i r e work i ng conditions [6], [7]. In 1932-1933, the scientists had to carry with their work despite the Moscow-ordered genocidal famine that was devastating the Ukrainian countryside [8].…”

Births of Technologies Do Not Always Occur at Times of Invention or Discovery [Speaker's Corner]

“…Finally, the archives may include historical or societal events [38] in the background of technological development that is of considerable value to all. A moving example of this is found in the IEEE archives [5], [39], [40] of the historical development of the magnetron in the 1930s.…”