Alfred Lee Loomis Education Yale Harvard - Law School Cum Laude Established Loomis Laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York, and funded scientific research for two decades after the stock market crash of 1929.

Background Lieutenant Colonial during first World War in charge of development and experimentation. He then became a millionaire as an investment banker as well as trading stocks

Underground Laboratory During the day Loomis did big business in the street At night Loomis would work in his garage laboratory in Tuxedo Park, New York. Loomis worked with a fellow war veteran Robert Wood on ultrasonic sound waves and spectrometry. During this time he received patents on many inventions: Aberdeen chronometer, a microscope centrifuge, and a pressurized fire extinguisher

Tuxedo Park Laboratory Loomis worked with many famed scientists in his underground lab. During the second World War Loomis funded many scientists with his wall street success. Loomis expanded his lab into a nearby mansion now famed as The Tuxedo Park Laboratory.

War Time Loomis became a major figure in a technology that would soon be accredited for winning World War II. Radar.

RADAR The first practical radar system was produced in 1935 by the British physicist Sir Robert Watson-Watt. Its main downfall was that it could not track small objects such as individual airplanes in the sky. It was also neither compact enough to be mounted on planes nor accurate enough to be effective at night.

Cavity Magnetron A few of America’s smartest men along with two British men gathered into Loomis’ Tuxedo Park Lab. On September 29, 1940, the men put together a small box that they guaranteed would provide the power needed for a quality radar system. 1,000x as much power at just a 10cm wavelength. They called it the Cavity Magnetron

MIT Rad Lab Immediately following their finding 10 Nobel Prize laureates along with 4,000 workers came together at the MIT Radiation Laboratory and within 6 weeks built radar devices capable of detecting U-Boats, navigation and bombing, and air-to-air fighter interception.

LORAN Loomis invented and patented LORAN (Long Range Aid to Navigation) A LORAN net, or chain, requires a master station, initiating the pulse, and a series of slave stations. In very simplified terms, the master transmits and the slave responds. While it suffered from atmospheric effects it was very efficient on the sea. Thus providing efficient navigation for boats.

Atomic Bomb Many of the scientists involved in the development of RADAR later worked on the creation of nuclear weaponry. It was said that “Radar won the war; the atomic bomb ended it” Loomis had a major role in both technologies