Editing Radar speed gun (section)

==History==
The radar speed gun was invented by John L. Barker Sr., and Ben Midlock, who developed radar for the military while working for the Automatic Signal Company (later Automatic Signal Division of LFE Corporation) in [[Norwalk, Connecticut]] during [[World War II]]. Originally, Automatic Signal was approached by [[Grumman]] to solve the specific problem of terrestrial [[landing gear]] damage on the [[Consolidated PBY Catalina]] amphibious aircraft. Barker and Midlock cobbled a Doppler radar unit from coffee cans soldered shut to make microwave resonators. The unit was installed at the end of the runway at Grumman's [[Bethpage, New York]] facility, and aimed directly upward to measure the sink rate of landing PBYs. After the war, Barker and Midlock tested radar on the [[Merritt Parkway]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Pagan |date=30 August 2013 |title=Innovation: Who Made That Traffic Radar? |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/magazine/who-made-that-traffic-radar.html |access-date= |quote=A version of this article appears in print on  , Page 17 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: Who Made That? (Traffic Radar).}}</ref> In 1947, the system was tested by the [[Connecticut State Police]] in [[Glastonbury, Connecticut]], initially for traffic surveys and issuing warnings to drivers for excessive speed. Starting in February 1949, the state police began to issue speeding tickets based on the speed recorded by the radar device.<ref>{{cite news |date=6 February 1949 |title=Speeders in Connecticut to Face Real Radar Test |page=65 |newspaper=The New York Times |location= |publication-place= |publication-date= |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1949/02/06/archives/speeders-in-connecticut-to-face-real-radar-test.html |access-date= |quote=GLASTONBURY, CONN., Feb. 5}}</ref> In 1948, radar was also used in [[Garden City, New York]].<ref>{{cite news |date=9 February 1949 |title=Radar Works on Speeders; Year's Test on Long Island Shows System is Costly |page=53 |newspaper=The New York Times |department=BUSINESS FINANCIAL |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1949/02/09/archives/radar-works-on-speeders-years-test-made-on-long-island-shows-system.html |access-date= |quote=GARDEN CITY, L. I., Feb. 8}}</ref>