Historical place archive

Daventry in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Daventry in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

3 records2 event labels2 people1935–1935

Historical events in Daventry

1935

26 February 1935
Daventry Experiment
Arnold Wilkins · Technology

Helps show that reflected radio signals can reveal aircraft.

26 February 1935
Daventry Experiment
Robert Watson-Watt · Technology

Demonstrates aircraft detection using a BBC transmitter signal.

26 February 1935
Radar Demonstration
Robert Watson-Watt · Technology

Proposes and demonstrates aircraft detection using reflected radio signals.

Provenance

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