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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 908 Collections and/or Records:

'Electron density', 1957-1961

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/F.1
Scope and Contents

File entitled ‘Electron density’. The material consists of an original folder of graphs of electron density at various heights, compiled by Mrs. Turnbull and others, dated 1959-1961. It includes a research report on the subject by J.O. Thomas, dated 1957.

Dates: 1957-1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Charts, graphs, data / Electron density

Envelope containing data and figures, inscribed by A.J. Lyon 'Old Draft of Paper II and odd figures I suggest omitting now' , c.1961

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.148
Scope and Contents

Envelope containing data and figures, inscribed by A.J. Lyon 'Old Draft of Paper II and odd figures I suggest omitting now'. The material possibly refers to a 1961 paper on the E-Layer.

Dates: c.1961
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / General Ionospheric Topics / Data and correspondence

Exercise book of critical frequency curves, by A.J. Lyon, no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.140
Scope and Contents

Exercise book of critical frequency curves, by A.J. Lyon, no date. Only a few pages have been used, at front of book.

Dates: no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / General Ionospheric Topics / Data and correspondence

Expense list and reading notes, 1694

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio E [061]
Scope and Contents

General notes in planetary physics, in Gregory's hand, with a month's expenses list, probably not in his hand.

Dates: 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio E

Experimentum de magnete percussio ..., 17 February 1695

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [86]
Scope and Contents

A paragraph about what happens when a magnet is struck, on the reverse of item 85.

Dates: 17 February 1695
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

'Extra-tropospheric influences in ultra-short-wave radar operation', March 1946

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.326
Scope and Contents 'Extra-tropospheric influences in ultra-short-wave radar operation'. The material relates to a paper presented by Edward Appleton at the Institution of Electrical Engineers Radar convention, 27 March 1946, and published in Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , 93. It contains drafts, comments and correspondence; a 12 page typescript draft; a 10 page typescript ‘Lecture version' of the paper; and correspondence on the draft, with comments and...
Dates: March 1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Solar Noise / Notes and drafts by Edward Appleton

Extrait de Manouvre des Vaisseaux ... sequuntur ... de Newtoni cogitatio, 1694

 Item
Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C [57]
Scope and Contents

A jotting, dated 1694, about a book on how vessels turn (for Gregory was interested in how solids behaved in fluids), and diagrams on the catenary curve, annotated annoted by Gregory and by Newton, almost certainly during their five-day meeting in Cambridge in May of the same year.

Dates: 1694
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

'F2 Layer Distortion Diurnal Variation', no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/F.22
Scope and Contents

The material consists of an original file of data for ionospheric stations worldwide, entitled 'F2 Layer Distortion Diurnal Variation', no date. The contents now include only charts of June and December values f'F2 (S.S. min.)/ f'F2 (S. S. max.) (not in Appleton's hand).

Dates: no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Charts, graphs, data / 'fF2'

'F2 - M3000 S.S. min./S.S. max.', c. 1948-1958

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Identifier: Coll-37/F.42
Scope and Contents

' F2 - M3000 S.S. min./S.S. max.'. The material consists of an original file of data values for Slough, Washington, Huacayo, Tokyo and Watheroo. The charts have used average data from c. 1948-1958 and will have therefore been drawn after this period,

Dates: c. 1948-1958
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Charts, graphs, data / (M3000)F2 data

'F2 Region Ionisation Anomalies', no date, c. 1940

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.62
Scope and Contents

'F2 Region Ionisation Anomalies'. The material consists of a 1 page typescript note, no date, c. 1940.

Dates: no date, c. 1940
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