Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt KCB FRS FRAeS (13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973) was a Scottish radio engineer and pioneer of radio direction finding and...
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Directed-energy weapon (section Robert Watson-Watt)
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....
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High-frequency direction finding (section Watson-Watt)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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tests in Cologne and Rotterdam harbour but was rejected. In 1915, Robert Watson-Watt used radio technology to provide advance warning of thunderstorms...
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Robert Watson, Bob Watson, or Bobby Watson may refer to: Robert Spence Watson (1837–1911), English solicitor, reformer, politician and writer Robert James...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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ionosphere's role in radio transmission. In 1926, Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt introduced the term ionosphere in a letter published only in 1969...
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ice hockey player Bob Watt (footballer) (1933–1984), Australian rules footballer Robert Watts (disambiguation) Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973), Scottish...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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ionosphere and hence, the etymology of its derivatives, was proposed by Robert Watson-Watt. An ionosonde consists of: A high frequency (HF) radio transmitter...
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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...
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postage stamp and the postmark – James Chalmers (1782–1853) Radar – Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973) Radio, the first transmission using a Spark Transmitter...
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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...
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Japan. In 1937, British researcher Gerald Touch, while working with Robert Watson-Watt on radar, suggested that lengths of wire suspended from balloons or...
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Ullman (born 1959), comedian and first appearance for the Simpsons Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973), scientist Justin Sullivan Singer/Guitarist New Model...
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networks Harry Ward Leonard Inventor of the Ward Leonard control system Robert Watson-Watt First practical radar George Westinghouse AC power industrialist Harold...
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productive capacity. Neither Winston Churchill nor the radar pioneer, Robert Watson-Watt, were initially in agreement with these tactics for the mission. Nevertheless...
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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...
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fields (Charles Babbage (computing), Frank Whittle (jet engine) and Robert Watson-Watt (radar)). In 1999, under the title "Faraday's Electricity", he featured...
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have been observed flying since being retired from combat. In 1936, Robert Watson Watt, a British engineer who invented radar, noted that measures to reduce...
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re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. 1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to...
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research on semiconductors. Others who have spent time at NPL include Robert Watson-Watt, generally considered the inventor of radar, Oswald Kubaschewski,...
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former MP for Banffshire and public servant. Robin Orr, composer. Robert Watson-Watt, radar pioneer, born in Brechin. Coat of arms of Brechin, based on...
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