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Who invented Radar?

A British physicist named Sir Robert Watson-Watt devised one of the earliest practical radar system in the mid 1930’s.

Radar uses radio waves to detect the position, motion and nature of remote objects.

It’s name derives from ‘radio detention and ranging’.

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