If one man ever really turned the tide of a war, a cheery Scottish scientist named Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt* might claim to be the man. Sir Robert was the principal inventor of radar. The electronic watchdogs developed by him and his fellow "boffins" (secret war scientists) won the Battle of Britain for the outnumbered R.A.F. Sir Robert got a "well done"the Order of the Bath.
Radar ballooned in wartime into a great industryand then collapsed just as suddenly. Few peacetime uses were found for military radars: they were not much help in navigating...
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