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Victim of His Own Invention


Erik Peterson

Several years after inventing radar, Sir Robert Watson Watt was arrested in Canada for speeding. He'd been caught in a radar trap. He wrote this poem:

Pity Sir Robert Watson Watt, Strange target of his radar plot, And this, with others I could mention, A victim of his own invention.