Watson-Watt Demonstrates Radar: Britain's Secret Weapon Against the Luftwaffe
Watson-Watt needed to prove radio waves could detect aircraft. He parked a van eight miles from a BBC transmitter and waited for a bomber to fly between them. The radio receiver crackled. The bomber's metal body was bouncing back signals. The Air Ministry gave him £12,000 and five weeks. By September, Britain had a chain of radar stations along the coast. Two years before the Luftwaffe needed finding.
February 26, 1935
91 years ago
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