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In 1935, a British engineer named Robert Watson Watt was asked whether it was possible that the Germans were developing a death ray using radio waves. No such weapon was being made, but in studying the possibility, Watt ended up creating a radar detector, one of the biggest technological advances of WWII.
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Bill O'Neill (The World War 2 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the Second World War)