1935: Radar (Radio Detection and Ranging) was first demonstrated in Daventry by Robert
Watson-Watt.
| 1935: Radar (Radio Detection and Ranging) was first demonstrated in Daventry by Robert
Watson-Watt. | 1936: The Volkswagen car factory was opened in Saxony by Adolf Hitler.
1935: Radar (Radio Detection and Ranging) was first demonstrated in Daventry by Robert
Watson-Watt. 1936: The Volkswagen car factory was opened in Saxony by Adolf Hitler.
Physicist Robert
Watson-Watt first demonstrated radar where signals from a BBC short wave transmitter were bounced off an aircraft.
SCOTTISH physicist Sir Robert Alexander
Watson-Watt patented radar.
CONCERNING the Echo article of June 11 and letter (Feedback, June 15), neither Edward "Taffy" Bowen nor Robert
Watson-Watt "invented" radar.
In this feature-length drama, he plays Scottish meteorologist Robert
Watson-Watt who, with a group of his weatherman colleagues, invented radar - the first means of spotting enemy planes in the sky while they're still far enough away to intercept them.
" The film, directed by Gilles" The film, directed by Gilles Mackinnon, tells of the genius of
Watson-Watt, whose ideas were initially dismissed by the Oxbridge-dominated establishment as "Castles in the Sky".
Quite apart from politics, literature and the arts, those luminaries include (among others): John Logie Baird, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, James Dewar, John Boyd Dunlop, Alexander Fleming, James Gregory, Douglas Haig, David Hume, David Livingstone, John McAdam, Robert McAlpine, Charles Macintosh, Adam Smith, Robert Thomson, Robert
Watson-Watt and James Watt.
Also recognised are Sir Robert
Watson-Watt, who pioneered the development of radar, and test pilot Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown, who flew more aircraft types than anyone, and made the first jet aircraft landing on an aircraft carrier.
RADAR was developed after the Air Ministry asked scientist Robert
Watson-Watt to research a "death ray" in 1935.