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Physics

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 662 Collections and/or Records:

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

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.192
Scope and Contents

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
Scope and Contents

'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