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
Chain Home
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Chain Home, or CH for short, was the codename for the ring of coastal early warning radar stations built by the Royal Air Force before and during the Second World War to detect and track aircraft. Ini
Robert Watson-Watt
…off a Handley Page Heyford aircraft. Watt led the development of a practical version of this device, which entered service in 1938 under the code name Chain Home. This system provided the vital advance information that helped the Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain. After the success of his invention, Watson…
Chain Home at RAF Poling, West Sussex
Stanley Baldwin's 1932 comments on future aerial warfare led to a "feeling of defencelessness and dismay." It was the UK's concern about this issue that led to so much support being given to radar development while other countries had a much more lackadaisical approach until the war started.
A 1925 radio magazine photograph of Grindell-Matthews' death ray