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    Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt KCB FRS FRAeS (13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973) was a Scottish radio engineer and pioneer of radio direction finding and...
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    busted three separate times. In 1935, the British Air Ministry asked Robert Watson-Watt of the Radio Research Station whether a "death ray" was possible....
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    such as from the U-boat fleet. The system was initially developed by Robert Watson-Watt starting in 1926, as a system for locating lightning. Its role in...
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  • flaw than a pebble without one." More recent applications include Robert Watson-Watt propounding a "cult of the imperfect", which he stated as "Give them...
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  • drama first broadcast on BBC Two on 4 September 2014. The movie shows Robert Watson-Watt and other British scientists' struggle to invent radar in the years...
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    with all the most important British radar experts, including Sir Robert Watson-Watt, A.P. Rowe, and Bernard Lovell. At the end of the war, Trump also...
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    tests in Cologne and Rotterdam harbour but was rejected. In 1915, Robert Watson-Watt used radio technology to provide advance warning of thunderstorms...
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    "Wizard War". In late 1934, the Tizard Committee asked radio expert Robert Watson-Watt to comment on the repeated claims of radio death rays and reports...
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  • Robert Watson, Bob Watson, or Bobby Watson may refer to: Robert Spence Watson (1837–1911), English solicitor, reformer, politician and writer Robert James...
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    General Erich Fellgiebel in Valkyrie and wartime pioneer of radar Robert Watson-Watt in the BBC drama film Castles in the Sky. Other roles have included...
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