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Correspondence from A.G.D. West and F.W.G. White to Edward Appleton, 1934-1938

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Identifier: Coll-37/E.147
Scope and Contents

The material consists of correspondence from A.G.D. West to Edward Appleton, dated 1934, relating to early Baird Television Ltd. reception and F.W.G. White to Appleton, dated 1936 and 1938, including data and some manuscript annotations by Appleton.

Dates: 1934-1938

Drafts for 2 slide lectures, c. 1930 and no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.7
Scope and Contents

Drafts for 2 slide lectures: lecture (perhaps for Royal Institution discourse) on short-wave discoveries of Störmer, Hals, etc., incomplete, no date, c. 1930; and lecture on early television, no date.

Dates: c. 1930 and no date

Folder containing press-cuttings, c. 1930-1939

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.60
Scope and Contents

Folder containing press-cuttings. The press-cuttings are regarding developments in radio and television, mainly from the 1930s.

Dates: c. 1930-1939

Large green ledger-type book, 1927-1939

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.59
Scope and Contents

Large green ledger-type book. The book contains press-cuttings on developments in radio and television, approximately dated 1927-1939.

Dates: 1927-1939

Typescript of article by Edward Appleton, Edward Andrade and Watson-Watt, 1946

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.27
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1946

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  • Type: Archival Object X
  • Names: Appleton, Sir Edward Victor, 1892-1965 (physicist and principal of the University of Edinburgh) X
  • Subject: Television broadcasting X

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Physics 3
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Andrade, Edward Neville da Costa , 1887-1971 (English physicist, writer and poet) 1
Watson-Watt, Robert Alexander, Sir, 1892-1973 (Scottish physicist) 1
West, A.G.D., fl.1914-1949 (British broadcasting engineer) 1
White, Frederick William George , 1905-1994 (New Zealand born physicist) 1