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Sir Robert Watson-Watt, engineer, inventor, and pioneer of RADAR

Engineering Achievements

In February 1935, Watson Watt wrote a report on "The Detection of Aircraft by Radio Methods" which attracted the attention of a committee concerned with air defence headed by Sir Henry Tizard. Watson Watt demonstrated the practicality of the theory in a trial in which short wave radio was used to detect a bomber. Watson Watt was soon after appointed superintendent of Bawdsey Research Station near Felixstowe in Suffolk, under the Air Ministry. Watson Watt and his team at Bawdsey provided the research that led to the creation of a chain of radar stations throughout the east and south coast of Britain.

Watson Watt realised that reporting the results of RADAR detection rapidly to Fighter Command was an essential component of a successful system. He established a group at Bawdsey to develop what became the "filter room" to interpret the raw data and pass on to Fighter Command.

The integrated system of RADAR stations, known as Chain Home and Chain Home Low, with rapid correlation and assessment in the filter room, was a vital part of the defence of Great Britain during the Battle of Britain. Fighter Command was given an early warning of an incoming attack by th

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Robert T. Hill

American geologist

Robert Thomas Hill (August 11, 1858 – July 20, 1941) was a significant figure in the development of American geology during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a pioneer Texas geologist, Hill discovered and named the Comanche series of the Lower Cretaceous, and was a lifelong student of the structure and stratigraphy of the Cretaceous deposits of Central Texas and neighboring regions.

Biography

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Robert T. Hill was born on August 11, 1858, in Nashville, Tennessee. He was orphaned at the age of five during the American Civil War and then raised in the home of his grandmother. In 1874, at the age of 16, Hill boarded a train and traveled to where the tracks ended in east Waco, Texas. From there, he found his way to the frontier town of Comanche, Texas, located 89 mi (143 km) to the west of Waco, where he joined his brother, Joe, the editor of the Comanche Chief newspaper. Robert worked as a printer for the newspaper and performed various other duties, including writing and bookbinding, and eventually became co-editor of the paper.^[1]

During the summer of 1876, Hill joined a survey crew headed to the Rolling Plains between the eastern edge of the Llano Estacado and Fort Griffin, Texas. The work, althoug

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Alexander III unravel Scotland

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Reign	6 July 1249 – 19 Walk 1286
Coronation	13 July 1249
Predecessor	Alexander II
Successor	Margaret
Born	4 September 1241 Roxburgh Castle, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Died	19 Stride 1286(1286-03-19) (aged 44) Kinghorn Ness, Fife, Scotland
Burial	29 Pace 1286 Dunfermline Abbey
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Father	Alexander II
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