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Various data on ionospheric results on F1 and F2 Layers, at Tromsö, 1935-1950

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.91
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Various data on ionospheric results on F1 and F2 Layers, at Tromsö, dated 1935-49. The material was sent to Appleton with covering letters, 1950, and some bearing Appleton's manuscript note, 'Mrs. Pritchard'.

Dates: 1935-1950

Visit to Clydebank, 1951

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Identifier: Coll-37/H.18
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The material consists of a photograph relating to Edward Appleton's visit to Clydebank, dated 1951.

Dates: 1951

Visit to Liverpool, 1952

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Identifier: Coll-37/H.19
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The material consists of a photograph relating to Edward Appleton's visit to Liverpool, dated 1952.

Dates: 1952

Visitors Book listing visitors entertained at the British Empire Cancer Campaign Environment Unit, Easter Bush Estate, 1963-1968

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Identifier: Coll-1057/3/4
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The volume lists the menus for various guest and staff lunches and dinners hosted at the British Empire Cancer Campaign Environment Unit. Guests include various key figures in the City and University of Edinburgh, including Edward Appleton, George L. Montgomery and Duncan M. Weatherstone, as well as academics and visitors from research institutions all over the world. The volume also contains various 'thank you' letters.

The volume is only half-filled.

Dates: 1963-1968

'Wellenausbreitung in ionisierten Gasen unter dem Einfluss eines Magnetfelds', c.1925-1926, 1978

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.215
Scope and Contents 'Wellenausbreitung in ionisierten Gasen unter dem Einfluss eines Magnetfelds'. The material consists of a manuscript narrative and calculations by Wilhelm Altar, variously paginated. Professor C.S. Gillmor described this document as 'very important for the history of the ionosphere' and gave its date as 'late 1925 - early 1926' in a private communication on 4 December 1978. The document was registered for copyright by Dr Altar, 1978. There are brief notes by Appleton on the title sheet and 2...
Dates: c.1925-1926, 1978

'Wilson's Theory of Thunderstorms', c. 1920

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.192
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The material consists of 5 pages of manuscript notes, probably taken c.1920 and with annotations added later in blue pencil. Also included is a sequence of manuscript notes by another, on the same subject, and a reprint of C.T.R. Wilson's Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Paper 'Investigations on lightning discharges and on the electric field of thunderstorms', 1920.

Dates: c. 1920

'Work of R.D.F. Application Committee' [Radar Direction Finding], c. 1945

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.267
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'Work of R.D.F. Application Committee' [Radar Direction Finding]. The material consists of a 5 page typescript for a speech or report. The author is unknown, but it has manuscript corrections by Appleton, no date and refers to study of 'angels' (radar echoes from unidentified objects).

Dates: c. 1945

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