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Smith-Rose, Reginald Leslie, 1894-1980 (English physicist at the National Physical Laboratory)

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Dates

  • Existence: 2 April 1894 - 19 March 1980

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and material on history of radar, 1923, 1945

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.268
Scope and Contents Correspondence and material on history of radar, mostly dated 1945 however contains some earlier dates. The material consists of:Correspondence with C. E. Horton, dated 1924, relating to work with Robert Watson-Watt on Cathode Ray Direction-finding, 1924.Correspondence with C.J. Mackenzie, dated 1923, relating to American Cathode Ray research.A press release on Vatican radio and radar.Offprint of article ‘Radiolocation’, by R.L....
Dates: 1923, 1945

Correspondence from colleagues of Edward Appleton, c. 1944

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.263
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from colleagues of Edward Appleton, mostly dated 1944 but containing some earlier references. The material is mainly on the history and inventors of radar. It is filed in alphabetical order from:


R.L. Smith-Rose, including copies of patents, photographs, and some research calculations.


R. Whiddington, enclosing a note by C.S. Prince on his early ‘squegger’ circuit.

Dates: c. 1944

Report on ‘Alexandra Palace Tests' by T.L. Eckersley, 1945

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.269
Scope and Contents

Report on ‘Alexandra Palace Tests' by T.L. Eckersley, dated January 1945. The material relates to on tropospheric propagation and it contains a letter from Appleton and comments on the article by R. L. Smith-Rose.

Dates: 1945

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