Radar➨ In 1935,with hostilities looming in Europe,the British government asked Scottish physicist Robert Watson Watt to develop a personnel-destroying "death ray" that could harm the opposition. Watson Watt demonstrated that this was an impossible ambition. However, he theorized that a radio wave could be sent to bounce against a moving object and monitoring its travel could then provide information about the target, such as its speed,direction of travel and altitude. This could also determine the distance from the transmitter of fixed objects. A demonstration won favor with the government, and Watson-Watt subsequently gave the technology the name Radar(Radio detection and ranging). Military Radar By the beginning of...



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