Robert Watson-Watt
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Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was a Scottish radio engineer and pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology.
Robert Watson Watt
Memorial at the Daventry site of the first successful RADAR experiments. 52°11′46″N 1°03′00″W / 52.195982°N 1.050121°W / 52.195982; -1.050121
Closeup of memorial plaque
The first workable radar unit constructed by Robert Watson Watt and his team
Arnold Wilkins
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Arnold Frederic Wilkins OBE was an English pioneer in developing the use of radar. It was Arnold Wilkins who suggested to his boss, Robert Watson-Watt, that reflected radio waves might be used to dete
Robert Watson-Watt
…about a quarter of all attacks on U-boats. In 1935, Watt was asked to comment on reports of a German death ray based on radio. Watt and his assistant Arnold Frederic Wilkins quickly determined it was not possible, but Wilkins suggested using radio signals to locate aircraft at long distances. This led to a February 1935…
Arnold Wilkins carried out most of the theoretical and practical work that proved radar could work.