To detect enemy aircraft, Scottish physicist Robert Alexander Watson-Watt developed and introduced radar, an acronym for Radio Detection And Ranging technology. It was invaluable in protecting ...

Scottish-born Robert Watson-Watt was once a meteorologist in Britain's weather bureau. His interest at the time was thunderstorms, and he worked out a radio device to track their movements at ...

IN a memorandum "Science and the Real Freedoms" issued by the Association of Scientific Workers (price 3d.), Sir Robert Watson-Watt gives a very fair appraisal, under the title "Freedoms of ...

FOR his presidential address to the Association, Sir Robert Watson-Watt took as his theme the topic of contentment. The Association, he pointed out, is now strong, but still not fully ...

90 years ago engineers Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins came to Daventry for an experiment. The goal: to see if they could detect aircraft with radio waves.