Who they are
Arnold Wilkins worked with Robert Watson-Watt on detecting aircraft by radio. The National Physical Laboratory’s history credits his assistance in preparing the February 1935 report and describes the subsequent demonstration using the Daventry transmitter and a bomber. His role belongs to the collaborative development of practical radar and its air-defense applications.
Radar’s development supplies technical context for later aerial detection, including the capabilities and limits behind radar-based reports.
Selected contributions
- Assisted Watson-Watt in preparing the aircraft-detection report associated with the 1935 demonstration.Source ↗
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Documented connections
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NPL’s history credits Watson-Watt with preparing the aircraft-detection report with Arnold Wilkins’s assistance.
This is an institutional account of report preparation; the original report and trial log were not inspected, and worldwide radar priority is not claimed.
Read the relationship record →Biography sources & portrait credit
- Sir Robert Watson-Watt ↗National Physical Laboratory
Portrait credit
Howard Coster. Public domain (expired Crown copyright). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
Image source & identification ↗ · Public domain (expired Crown copyright) ↗
