"SCIENTIFIC marvels from Malvern" were on show at Imperial College, London, 50 years ago.
Eight exhibits from TRE and RRDE, forerunners of today's DERA, were on show at the Physical Society's exhibition at the college.
An awestruck special correspondent from the Malvern Gazette said the exhibits were "quite impossible to describe in simple terms".
The RRDE exhibits included a radar device to allow aircraft to land in fogs.
The TRE apparatus proved even more esoteric, but the correspondent commented: "It is interesting to know that the work that has been done on lead telluride cells has revealed secrets of the solar spectrum and of the upper atmosphere."
"Altogether the honour of the scientists of Malvern was worthily upheld and the visitor left the exhibition in a humble frame of mind, having been forcibly reminded that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his, or her, philosophy."
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