FIRST - Birth of Radar, Upper Stowe, Northamptonshire, UK
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Dragontree
N 52° 11.759 W 001° 03.006
30U E 633269 N 5784628
This is an important site where radar was first tested and successfully invented in Britain.
Waymark Code: WM2ZP3
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/16/2008
Views: 36
It was with this invention that Britain was able to survive the Battle of Britain in 1940. There is a stone plinth with a plaque and also a metallic information board describing radar. The fields are pictured where they were actually able to demonstrate radar working for the first time.
The inscription on the plaque states:
'Birth of Radar Memorial. On 26th February 1935, in the field opposite. Robert Watson Watt and Arnold Wilkins showed for the first time in Britain that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them, By 1935 there were 20 stations tracking aircraft at distances up to 100 miles. Later known as radar, it was this invention, more than any other, that saved the RAF from defeat in the 1940 Battle of Britain.' See also visit link
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