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 ...

A statue is being raised in a Scottish town honouring the man who led the development of Britain's "secret weapon" in World War Two - radar. Sir Robert Watson-Watt pioneered the technology that ...

Q. What was the most ironic use of the new "radio and detection and ranging," developed in the 1930s by Robert Watson-Watt, who became known as the "father of RADAR"? A. The British Air Ministry ...

Sir Robert Watson-Watt called the six-bedroom property in Richmond-upon-Thames home during the 1930s and ’40s. By Leah Milner. Originally Published April 4, 2025, 7:34 am EST ...

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.

He pioneered the technology that was the "secret weapon" that won the Battle of Britain - but few outside his home town know who he was.