Radar, which stands for radio detection and ranging, has been around for almost as long as controlled flight. Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins conducted the first experiments that led to a ...

Scottish-born Robert Watson-Watt was once a meteorologist in Britain’s weather bureau. His interest at the time was thunderstorms, and he worked out a radio device to track their movements at great ...

In 1935, a research team led by Robert Watson Watt in the United Kingdom succeeded in tracking an aircraft flying at an altitude of 300 meters and a distance of about 60 kilometers using ...