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Company Logo Unit 6 Maintaining a Sharp Eye New Practical English Right or Wrong? What Rhymes with Engineers? New Practical English Unit 6 Maintaining a Sharp Eye Related Information 1 Intensive Study 2 Practice 3 New Practical English Unit 6 Related Information ?Famous Engineers ? All of the people listed below made a significant contribution (directly or indirectly) to the applied engineering. ?Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, FRS (1892 -1973) ? James Watt (1736-1819) New Practical English Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was born in 1892. He was educated at Dundee and the university of St Andrews. His first line of research was in meteorology where he used short-wave radio to detect the location of thunderstorms. By combining this direction finding technique with the ranging capabilities of ionosondes, he designed a system that was capable of detecting aeroplanes. He called this system Radio Detection And Ranging (RADAR). By the autumn of 1938 radar systems were in place along the south coast of Britain and by the Battle of Britain in 1940 were able to detect enemy aircraft at any time of day and in any weather Unit 6 Related Information New Practical English conditions. Watson-Watt became scientific advisor to the Air Ministry in 1940 and in 1941 went to the United States there. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1941 and Knighted in 1942 for his role in the development of radar. Isambard Kingdom Brunel(1806-1859) Isambard was born in Portsmouth on April 9th, 1806. He helped his father (Sir Marc Isambard Brunel) build the first tunnel under the river Thames. ? Unit 6 Related Information New Practical English Brunel built gigantic steam ships capable of crossing Atlantic Ocean. These were The P.s Great Western (the quickest of its time), The S.s Great Britain (the first propeller driven ship) and The P.s.s Great Eastern (the largest ship of its time) Rudolf Diesel(1858-1913) Rudolf Diesel was born in P