Early days in radio research

The early history of Government-sponsored radio research in Britain is intimately associated with the National Physical Laboratory and with the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, which was set up in 1918. Open-field amenities were soon required for wave-propagation & directional studies, and were provided on land adjoining the Admiralty Compass Observatory at Ditton Park, Slough - a site that has become world famous as the home of the Radio & Space Research Station.