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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Air Ministry turned to prominent physicist Robert Watson-Watt, to see if a blaster based on radio waves might be feasible. (The Ministry \ ... Watson-Watt reported that the ray gun was a no-go.

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.

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.

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 ...