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...

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...

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

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...

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

"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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

U.S. – Warthin–Starry stain (histology) Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973), Scotland – microwave radar James Watt (1736–1819), Scotland – improved Steam engine...

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...

Ullman (born 1959), comedian and first appearance for the Simpsons Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973), scientist Justin Sullivan Singer/Guitarist New Model...

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...

Week 2, Watt broke Harrison's franchise sack record by sacking Deshaun Watson and bringing his career total to 81.5. Watt later recovered a Watson fumble...

research on semiconductors. Others who have spent time at NPL include Robert Watson-Watt, generally considered the inventor of radar, Oswald Kubaschewski,...