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Physics

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence and material on history of radar, 1923, 1945

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.268
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....
Dates: 1923, 1945

Correspondence and papers regarding U.R.S.I. [Union Radio-Scientifique International] programme, 1934-1935

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.321
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...
Dates: 1934-1935

Correspondence from F.W. van Straten, R.A. Watson-Watt and A.H. Waynick to Edward Appleton, 1920, 1947-1948

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Identifier: Coll-37/E.145
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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.

Dates: 1920, 1947-1948

Correspondence from R.A. Watson-Watt to Edward Appleton, 1930 and 1934

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.27
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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.

Dates: 1930 and 1934

Press-release regarding R.A. Watson-Watt, and notes for address and speeches by Edward Appleton, 1952

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.46
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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.

Dates: 1952

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

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.27
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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.

Dates: 1946