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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 905 Collections and/or Records:

'An approximate theory of ionospheric layer formation', 1954

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.46
Scope and Contents

'An approximate theory of ionospheric layer formation'. The material consists of a 5 page typescript, by A.J. Lyon, August 1954.

Dates: 1954
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / E layer / Drafts for papers and research notes on collaborative work by Edward Appleton on E layer with A. J. Lyon and A. G. Pritchard

‘Anomalous Diurnal Behaviour in F2 Layer Ionisation', c. 1960

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.80
Scope and Contents

‘Anomalous Diurnal Behaviour in F2 Layer Ionisation'. The material consists of 4 pages of notes, drafts, ideas and calculations, no date, perhaps c.1960.

Dates: c. 1960
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / F layer / Drafts and ideas for research on F layer

Appleton's instructions to collaborators and assistants at Edinburgh, 1953-1964

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.124-C126
Scope and Contents

The material consists of 3 files of instructions by Edward Appleton for his collaborators assistants, dated 1953-1964.

Dates: 1953-1964
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / General Ionospheric Topics / Drafts and ideas for research

Appleton's 'National Report to Commission III' (U.R.S.I.) [Union Radio-Scientifique International], c. 1955-1957

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.49
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Appleton's 'National Report to Commission III' (U.R.S.I.) [Union Radio-Scientifique International]. The material consists of 2 page typescript with manuscript note 'Dr. Lyon. I don't know whether you have seen this?' no date, 1955-56; and 'Note by Sir Edward Appleton' 3 page typescript with a manuscript note (not in Appleton's hand) 'Copy to Mr. Ratcliffe 29/10/57'.

Dates: c. 1955-1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / E layer / Drafts for papers and research notes on collaborative work by Edward Appleton on E layer with A. J. Lyon and A. G. Pritchard

Army notebook, inscribed on cover 'E. V. Appleton ii Lieut [Lieutenant] R. E. Electricity Notes' , c 1914-1921

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.1B
Scope and Contents Army notebook, inscribed on cover 'E. V. Appleton ii Lieut [Lieutenant] R. E. Electricity Notes' , c.1914-1921.Both ends of the item are used. At the front of the notebook, there are notes on electricity and magnetism, perhaps for lectures during First World War. In the middle, there is a sequence of pages (some numbered) of experiments on 'Oscillator with Leaking Grid Condenser', at Cambridge, 1920-21 (not all in Appleton's hand). At the rear of the notebook, there are press-cuttings on...
Dates: c 1914-1921
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks

Army notebook, with only a few pages and front cover remaining, c.1914-1918

 Item
Identifier: Coll-37/B.1A
Scope and Contents

Army notebook, with only a few pages and front cover remaining, c.1914-1918. Notes on differential equations, perhaps for lectures as Instructor in R. E. Signals [check what this means] during First World War.

Dates: c.1914-1918
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks

Astronomiae Physicae et Geometricae Elementa, 28 February 1698

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [43]
Scope and Contents

Notes from a London meeting with Sir Isaac Newton on a revised plan for the Astronomiae physicae et geometricae elementa, (1702), Gregory's most important work. An erratum lies at the foot of this document, unrelated to it or to any of the other things on the sheet (which have their own entries in Gregory's index): a jotting about refraction, crystals, and cataracts of the eye. This is dated London, 30 May 1708.

Dates: 28 February 1698
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

'Atmospheric spectrum' , c. 1943

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.16
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Folder marked 'Atmospheric spectrum'. It includes manuscript translations of articles on atmospherics, D.S.I.R. [Department of Scientific and Industrial Research] and U.R.S.I. [Union Radio-Scientifique International] reports, National Defense Research Committee report by Jansky and Bailey (1943), etc.

Dates: c. 1943
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Atmospherics / Notes and Drafts

Atmospherics

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-37/C.8-C.28
Scope and Contents

The material consists of notes, drafts and correspondence. The early material was described by C. S. Gillmor as 'work on pulse characteristics of receivers, and problems of receiving atmospherics'. The later material (from c. 1929) is mainly on the effects of thunderstorms.

Dates: c 1918-1973
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics

'Atomic energy and its applications', c. 1949-1951

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.41
Scope and Contents

The material consists ofdDrafts for Edward Appleton’s chapter to the book ‘Aspects of Modern Science', published in 1951, with some editorial correspondence. It is contained in its original folder, inscribed ‘Atomic Energy'.

Dates: c. 1949-1951
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Lectures, speeches, publications

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