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.

Eddie Izzard's charisma animates Gillies MacKinnon's staid biopic of British radar inventor Robert Watson-Watt. The film’s opening credit sequence, with its typewritten text and bloodstained ...

Watson-Watt is said to have declared after the success of the trial: “Now Britain is an island again.” The sceptics were won over. Watson-Watt and his team were based at Bawdsey Manor Estate ...

Eddie Izzard's charisma animates Gillies MacKinnon's staid biopic of British radar inventor Robert Watson-Watt. The film’s opening credit sequence, with its typewritten text and bloodstained ...

Last week Watson-Watt, now “Sir Robert,” already knighted as one of the architects of victory in the Battle of Britain, got another reward: £50,000 ($140,000), tax free, from the Royal ...

ROBERT Watson-Watt is one of who Scotland's greatest war heroes, yet few know his name. Now the Scottish scientist is set to finally get the recognition he deserves as a new film depicting his ...

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 ...

NOT many people can say they've been caught out by the invention that made their name. When Sir Robert Watson-Watt's car was spotted on speed radar by a police officer, he could claim just that ...

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.

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.

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 ...