Watson-Watt, Robert Alexander, Sir, 1892-1973 (Scottish physicist)

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3 cards and a letter from R. Naismith and a postcard from R.A. Watson-Watt to Edward Appleton. The material consists of 3 cards from R. Naismith sent during his journey to Norway, 1933; letter from R. Naismith regarding research, 1934; and postcard of Tromsö ('the Paris of the North') sent by R. A. Watson-­Watt (date not legible).

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....

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers regarding U.R.S.I. [Union Radio-Scientifique International] programme of ionospheric research continuing Polar Year work. The material includes a copy of Edward Appleton's paper to U.R.S.I. Commission II on 'Measurement of ionosphere layer heights and correlation with other geophysical and cosmic data’, dated August 1934; manuscript notes of the U.R.S.I. research programme as decided by R.Naismith, dated November 1934; note on U.R.S.I. research, and calendar for...

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The material consists of correspondence from F.W. van Straten to Edward Appleton, dated 1947, from R.A. Watson-Watt to Appleton, dated 1920, and from A.H. Waynick to Appleton, dated 1948.

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Correspondence from Robert Alexander Watson-Watt to Edward Appleton, 1934. The correspondence contains a very critical comment on Appleton's and Chapman's paper, 'The lightning flash as source of an atmospheric’, Nature, 134, and referring to previous work and publication by Appleton, Watson-Walt and Herd ('On the nature of atmospherics', Proceedings of the Royal Society, 111). The material includes a press-cutting of an article by Watson-Watt on atmospherics, dated 1930.

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Correspondence from Thomas Lydwell Eckersley to Edward Appleton. The material includes a typescript research paper on 'Energy of Atmospherics'. Eckersley's letter is addressed to Admiral Jackson and bears a manuscript note 'E.V.A. [Edward Victor Appleton] Pl. [Please] see &amp return R.A.W.W.' [Watson-Watt).

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The material consist of a 1 page press-release on radar awards to R.A. Watson-Watt, January 1952; an address by Edward Appleton at the Conference of School of Scottish Studies, May 1952; and Appleton’s notes for speeches in Australia, 1952.

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Report in French, 'Rapport sur la detection électromagnétique par la télégraphie militaire' [Report on electromagnetic detection by military telegraphy], 1935. The material was sent to Appleton with a covering letter dated 1945 and a note at the end of the report describes it as the only surviving document on French pre-war research of that type, all other records having been destroyed in 1940.

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The material consists of an 11 page typescript of a contribution to 'Science Survey' by Edward Appleton with Edward Andrade and Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, to commemorate the first postwar television programme in 1946.