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He graduated with a BSc in engineering in 1912, and was offered an assistantship by Professor William Peddie, the holder of the Chair of Physics at University College, Dundee from 1907 to 1942.

It was Peddie who encouraged Watson-Watt to study radio, or " wireless telegraphy " as it was then known and who took him through what was effectively a postgraduate class of one on the physics of radio frequency oscillators and wave propagation.

At the start of the Great War Watson-Watt was working as an assistant in the College's Engineering Department.