Deputydog has very nice pictures of a low-tech forerunner of radar : the acoustic sound mirror system.
It was built in England during the first half of the twentieth century,
and was intended to provide early warning of incoming war
planes. Earlier, also portable devices were developed in France,
Germany and Japan. (Via Microsiervos)
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