Sir Robert Watson-Watt pioneered the technology that helped win the Battle of Britain, and was knighted for it in 1942 - but outside of his birthplace in Brechin, few people today remember his name.

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 ...

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.

Historian and award-winning author Robert Watson joins Between the Covers to discuss his latest book Did you know that during the Civil War, the Confederacy came dangerously close to capturing ...

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 ...

BIDDEFORD — Robert “Bob” Watson, known for his warm smile and adventurous spirit, passed away peacefully on March 13, 2024, at his home in Biddeford, Maine, surrounded by his loving family ...

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 ...

Author Robert Watson tells the tale of the yellow fever that gripped early America in 1793 Author Robert Watson talks about his new book that offers the definitive telling of a long-forgotten ...