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4 unusual facts about Robert Watson


Filter Room

When the radar defence of Great Britain was set up, Robert Watson-Watt and his team created a chain of radar stations around the coastline.

Ionosonde

The term ionosphere and hence, the etymology of its derivatives, was proposed by Robert Watson-Watt.

Passive radar

The first radar experiments in the United Kingdom in 1935 by Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated the principle of radar by detecting a Handley Page Heyford bomber at a distance of 12 km using the BBC shortwave transmitter at Daventry.

Robert Watson-Watt

The first was the presence of an Adcock antenna, an arrangement of four masts that allowed the signal to be directed through phase differences.


Albert Percival Rowe

Rowe replaced Robert Watson-Watt as Superindentent of the Bawdsey Research Station where the Chain Home RDF system was developed, and in 1938–1945 was the Chief Superintendent of the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE), which carried out pioneering research on microwave radar.

Oxford Farming Conference

Speakers included the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Hilary Benn, and the chief scientist of the UK government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Professor Robert Watson.

Pitlochry

From the 1960s, Sir Robert Watson-Watt, an inventor of radar, and his wife, Dame Katherine Jane Trefusis Forbes, Director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in World War II, lived at her summer house, "The Observatory," in Pitlochry.


see also

Hitler – Dead or Alive

The three join the Royal Canadian Air Force to enter Germany and pose as musicians to gain access to Hitler, played by Robert Watson.