Sir Robert Alexander Watson Watt KCB FRS FRAeS (13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973) was a British pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology...

busted three separate times. In 1935, the British Air Ministry asked Robert Watson-Watt of the Radio Research Station whether a "death ray" was possible....

such as from the U-boat fleet. The system was initially developed by Robert Watson-Watt starting in 1926, as a system for locating lightning. Its role in...

flaw than a pebble without one." More recent applications include Robert Watson-Watt propounding a "cult of the imperfect", which he stated as "Give them...

tests in Cologne and Rotterdam harbour but was rejected. In 1915, Robert Watson-Watt used radio technology to provide advance warning of thunderstorms...

ice hockey player Bob Watt (footballer) (1933–1984), Australian rules footballer Robert Watts (disambiguation) Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973), Scottish...

drama first broadcast on BBC Two on 4 September 2014. The movie shows Robert Watson-Watt and other British scientists' struggle to invent radar in the years...

"Wizard War". In late 1934, the Tizard Committee asked radio expert Robert Watson-Watt to comment on the repeated claims of radio death rays and reports...

Robert Watson, Bob Watson, or Bobby Watson may refer to: Robert Spence Watson (1837–1911), English solicitor, reformer, politician and writer Robert James...

General Erich Fellgiebel in Valkyrie and wartime pioneer of radar Robert Watson-Watt in the BBC drama film Castles in the Sky. Other roles have included...

technician or research scientist. Post war, Sir Robert Watson-Watt, the British radar pioneer, cited Robert Hanbury Brown, who had been at RAF Bawdsey (later...

ionosphere's role in radio transmission. In 1926, Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt introduced the term ionosphere in a letter published only in 1969...

Theodore von Kármán (1946) John von Neumann (1947) Sir Robert Watson-Watt (1946) Thomas J. Watson Sr. (19 May 1947) Sidney James Weinberg (19 September...

ionosphere and hence, the etymology of its derivatives, was proposed by Robert Watson-Watt. An ionosonde consists of: A high frequency (HF) radio transmitter...

the use of radar. It was Arnold Wilkins who suggested to his boss, Robert Watson-Watt, that reflected radio waves might be used to detect aircraft, and...

Japan. In 1937, British researcher Gerald Touch, while working with Robert Watson-Watt on radar, suggested that lengths of wire suspended from balloons or...

ISBN 978-1-4269-2111-7 Watson-Watt, Sir Robert, The Pulse of Radar, Dial Press, 1959, (no ISBN) (An autobiography of Sir Robert Watson-Watt) Zimmerman, David...

Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician (d. 1973) 1892 – Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, English air marshal (d. 1984) 1892 – Robert Watson-Watt...

postage stamp and the postmark – James Chalmers (1782–1853) Radar – Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973) Radio, the first transmission using a Spark Transmitter...

with all the most important British radar experts, including Sir Robert Watson-Watt, A.P. Rowe, and Bernard Lovell. At the end of the war, Trump also...

hours by Arnold Wilkins after being asked to consider a problem by Robert Watson Watt. Watt had learned that the Germans claimed to have invented a radio-based...

technology Harry Ward Leonard Inventor of the Ward Leonard control system. Robert Watson-Watt First practical radar George Westinghouse AC power industrialist Harold...

Home radar system (CH), the RAF had considered the problem of IFF. Robert Watson-Watt had filed patents on such systems in 1935 and 1936. By 1938, researchers...

the horizon, so these aircraft only became visible at short range. Robert Watson Watt seized several dozen of the Coastal Defense (CD) systems that were...

Airey was born in Oldham, Lancashire on 25 August 1894. He joined Robert Watson-Watt in 1924, and was an original member of the radar team, responsible...

fields (Charles Babbage (computing), Frank Whittle (jet engine) and Robert Watson-Watt (radar)). In 1999, under the title "Faraday's Electricity", he featured...

condition, and F-117s have been observed flying since 2009. In 1936, Robert Watson Watt, a British engineer who invented radar, noted that measures to reduce...

Pitlochry Town Hall shortly after it was formed. From the 1960s, Sir Robert Watson-Watt, an inventor of radar, and his wife, Dame Katherine Jane Trefusis...

re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. 1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to...

of whom were female. Among the notable students at this time were Robert Watson-Watt, the radar pioneer; William Alexander Young the epidemiologist who...