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Inventor of sonar ignored by history

By Armchair General History News |  Published: February 19, 2008 at 4:21 pm

Inventor of sonar ignored by history (Physorg.com)

Robert Boyle could hardly have foreseen that he would come up with the most important military innovation of the First World War. And yet his story becomes, in the words of historian Rod McLeod, one of the most “fascinating and completely neglected” in the U of A’s history annals.



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