Physics PYQ 125 of 288 · Waves

Who was the inventor of RADAR?

  1. ARobert Watson
  2. BFleming
  3. CBush Wall
  4. DAustin

48th–52nd BPSC Prelims 2008

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Correct answer: (a) Robert Watson

Explanation

Radar (Radio Detection and Ranging) was developed by the Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt in 1935.

It finds aircraft and ships by sending out radio waves and timing their echoes, and it gave Britain early warning of air raids in the Second World War.

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