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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...