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Sir Robert Watson-Watt in the year 1935 invented the first practical radar in the United Kingdom. A Handley Page Heyford bomber was detected by his radar from a distance of 12 km.ir Robert Watson-Watt in the year 1935 invented the first practical radar in the United Kingdom. A Handley Page Heyford bomber was detected by his radar from a distance of 12 km.
The Signal Corps' Electrical Laboratory of Washington, D.C., and the Signal Corps' Research Laboratory of New York merged with the Radio Laboratories here in 1929 to form the consolidated Signal Corps Laboratories. The scientists of those labs developed the first U.S. aircraft detection radar, among many other things, between the wars.