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Originally Posted by The Philpott
'Most secret' or not, it's always worth searching old patents. There was an embarrassing episode in WW2 where fledgling bomb disposal were desperate for examples of German bomb fuzes- only to realise later that one or more of the current designs had been recorded at the patent office.
Dave
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The same happened with the WWII German navigation-beams: someone realised that the German "Standard Elektrik Lorenz" company which made much of the equipment was a part of Standard Radio in the US, which was also the parent company of STC in the UK. A quick search of the UK and US companies' patents archive revealed all that needed to be known!