Based on this, Page, Taylor, and Young are usually credited with building and demonstrating the world's first true radar . ( Radar is a name coming from an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging.
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The Coherent Technologies system is called LIDAR, for Light Detection and Ranging . ( " Radar " stands for Radio Detection and Ranging . ) It sends out a laser beam 2 to 4 inches wide.
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In laboratory test during 1938, the system, now designated USS " New York " for sea trials starting in January 1939, and became the first operational radio detection and ranging set in the U . S . fleet.
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At the NRL Radio Division, target detection and ranging by radio was first demonstrated by classified, and the acronym RADAR ( RAdio Detection And Ranging ) was coined by the Navy for use in unclassified identification; the noun radar quickly followed.
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The interpretation of " lidar " as an acronym ( " LIDAR " or " LiDAR " ) came later, beginning in 1970, based on the assumption that since the base term " radar " originally started as an acronym for " RAdio Detection And Ranging ", " LIDAR " must stand for " LIght Detection And Ranging ", or for " Laser Imaging, Detection and Ranging ".
