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Robert Watson-Watt
Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (13 d'abril de 1892, Brechin – 5 d'avientu de 1973, Inverness) foi un inxenieru y físicu escocés, consideráu equivocadamente por dalgunos como l'inventor del radar (el desenvolvimientu yera bien anterior). A pesar d'ello, la so patente sobre esti asuntu en 1935, condució al Reinu Xuníu a instalar la primer rede de radares de defensa. Les sos investigaciones y la so direición de los proyeutos antes y mientres la Segunda Guerra Mundial fixeron del radar un preséu esencial de los aliaos pa la victoria final.
Mocedá
[editar | editar la fonte]D'orixe yera descendiente de James Watt, l'inxenieru qu'inventara la máquina de vapor. N'estudiando na escuela pública de Brechin, foi almitíu na Universidá de Dundee (qu'entós formaba parte de la Universidá de St. Andrews). Graduar n'Inxeniería en 1912 y consiguió trabayar de profesor ayudante d'investigación col profesor William Peddie, quién-y animó nel estudiu de la radio o, como entós llamábase, la TSH.
Entamos de la so carrera
[editar | editar la fonte]En 1915, Watson-Watt trató de trabayar na Oficina de Guerra pero nun esistía nenguna infraestructura pa investigar en telecomunicaciones. Asina, empezó a trabayar como inxenie
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Famous Inventors, Scientists and Engineers
As 2010 draws to a close, I'd like to present an homage to a selection of pioneers, engineers, inventors and scientists. I've published a choice quote from each of them. They are presented in no particular order, but there is a common theme. Can you work out what it is?
Sir Christopher Cockerell (1910-1999)
Sir Christopher Cockerell invented the Hovercraft in 1953. His first prototype was built using a hair-dryer and a pair of tin cans (one was a coffee can, the other a food can). "Hovercraft will always be around � you can�t un-invent something!" |
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Charles Babbage was the great-grandfather of the computer. His Difference Engine was the first programmable mechanical computer. Not a bad achievement for someone whose parents ordered his teachers that his "brain was not to be taxed too much" after suffering a childhood fever. Interestingly, you can still see his brain today; it's sitting in a jar in the London Science Museum. I like the following quote he once made, "Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all." |
Michael Faraday (1797-1867)
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