Watson-Watt Proposes Radar

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Robert Watson-Watt

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On 12 February 1935 Robert Watson-Watt sent a memorandum entitled "Detection of aircraft by radio methods", which Hanbury Brown calls "the birth certificate of radar." During World War II, radar played a pivotal role in the success or failure of many military missions.