Robert+Alexander+Watson-Watt

= ROBERT ALEXANDER WATSON-WATT = "INVENTOR OF THE RADAR" media type="youtube" key="vrEzcdydX3Q" width="425" height="350" BORN- APRIL 13 1892 DEATH- DECEMBER 5 1973

Radar was first called "chain home" A decedent of James Watt the inventor of the steam engine and Robert learned a lot from him Got accepted into University Saint Andrew's but later became known as University of Dundee Graduated in 1912 with a BS in engineering After he graduated he was granted an assistant position by professor William Peddie This professor was the one that recommended working with radio technology His first experiments were detecting where thunderstorms were headed or where they were at the time Then he started to get farther away from the storms to see if he could still detect where they were at He found that it was hard to tell where the tracking signal was coming from so he made antennas to attract the signals Both of these are every day things that have evolved from the radar [|http://www.biography.com/articles/Sir-Robert-Alexander-Watson-Watt-9525269]

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