Talk:Robert Watson-Wattの英語

This article and statements that link to it such as the one on the main page of the Wikipedia today (26 February 2010) falsely claim that Watson-Watt "invented" radar and that his 1935 experiments were the first demonstration of radar. These claims are absurdly angophile rewrites of history. By 1935 the Germans had working, commercial radars that were far more advanced than Watson-Watts laboratory experiments. The Seetakt system is only one of several working German radars that preceeded by years the work of any other nation. Experimenters at the Kiel shipyard were doing radar experiments at least as early as 1933. By 1935 both the NVA (Nachrichten-Versuchsabteilung) and GEMA (Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische und Mechanische Apparate) had multiple, working commercial radar systems they were selling to the German military. Calling Watson-Watt the father of radar and so forth is highly exaggerated. If anyone deserves this title it is Guglielmo Marconi whose 1922 speech sparked the first active interest in radar, and it was he that did the earliest radar-related experiments dating back to 1899. I notice someone has deleted all the references to this work from both the articles on Marconi and the history of radar. John Chamberlain (talk) 15:32, 26 February 2010 (UTC)