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Physics

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

Found in 663 Collections and/or Records:

'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
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