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In the first world war, there was no such thing as a radar, or any form of scanning device, so that the war was only fought by eyes and ears. Whoever heard, or saw the ships first would have had more time to prepare. As far back as June 1932, there had been Post Office Reports about a plane interfering with radio signals, and re-rediating them. Then Sir Robert A. Waston-Watt, A British Electronics Genius, (the man who invented the stereo with only two speakers) came up the idea of RDF, Radio Direction Finding. With his staff A.F. Wilkins, he was able to submit a paper about a thing called radar as codename, in 1935. It was proved that the theory would work, but with a range of only 8 miles. Then and there started the radar research. By 1939, the Germans also had their own RDF installation, named the Freya. It proved quite effective in picking up British bombers, and they were able to pick up bombers ensemble at 114 kilometers. Although as early as September, Britain had......

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