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

Found in 908 Collections and/or Records:

Folder inscribed 'Comparison of Huancayo and Tananarive', 1951-1954

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.128
Scope and Contents

Folder inscribed 'Comparison of Huancayo [Peru] and Tananarive [French name for Antananarivo, Madagascar]'. The material consists of tabulated data on various values, almost all in Edward Appleton's hand, dated 1951-1954.

Dates: 1951-1954
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / General Ionospheric Topics / Drafts and ideas for research

Folder inscribed 'Critical Frequencies for F1 and F2, 1934. Slough Records' (not in Appleton's hand), 1934

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.32
Scope and Contents

Folder inscribed 'Critical Frequencies for F1 and F2, 1934. Slough Records' (not in Appleton's hand). The material consists of Detailed manuscript charts, almost all in the hand of L.J. Ingram.

Dates: 1934
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Critical Frequency

Folder inscribed 'E Seasonal' in A.J. Lyon's hand, no date, c. 1947-1960

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.155
Scope and Contents

Folder inscribed 'E Seasonal' in A.J. Lyon's hand. The material consists of extensive charts and graphs, almost all by Lyon, but some by Mrs Pritchard and with a few annotations by Edward Appleton.

Dates: no date, c. 1947-1960
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / General Ionospheric Topics / Data and correspondence / Charts and data containing background information and research results

Folder inscribed 'Eclipse' and '1937', 1936-1938

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Identifier: Coll-37/E.73
Scope and Contents

The material consists of an original folder inscribed 'Eclipse' with the date ‘1937’ added in another hand. It includes correspondence from Naismith regarding plans for observing the Solar Eclipse of 1940, bibliographies and tabulated information on eclipses from 1935 and 1936, printed reports. Also included are a letter and photographs on the 1936 eclipse, from J. A. Pierce.

Dates: 1936-1938
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Correspondence / Correspondence from Robert Naismith to Edward Appleton

Folder inscribed 'F-region Ionisation KCL (King's College London] December 1931-May 1932’ , December 1931-May 1932

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.166
Scope and Contents

Folder inscribed 'F-region Ionisation KCL (King's College London] December 1931-May 1932’ (not in Edward Appleton’ s hand). The data is written in various hands, with some loose pages inserted at the front of the folder. It includes work by Appleton, R. Naismith, Builder and others.

Dates: December 1931-May 1932
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Ionisation

Folder inscribed 'fE and R' in A.J. Lyon's hand, no date, c.1947-1960

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.154
Scope and Contents

Folder inscribed 'fE and R' in A.J. Lyon's hand. The material consists of charts and graphs by Lyon and Mrs Pritchard, no date, c. 1947-1960.

Dates: no date, c.1947-1960
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / General Ionospheric Topics / Data and correspondence / Charts and data containing background information and research results

Folder inscribed 'Travelling Wave Aerials (Rhombic and Delta)' in C.P. Bell's hand , no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.162
Scope and Contents

Folder inscribed 'Travelling Wave Aerials (Rhombic and Delta)' in C.P. Bell's hand, no date. The material consists of two drafts for a paper, and a series of figures on 'Rhombic and Delta Aerial Arrays', by C. P. Bell.

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 / Correspondence, data and research notes

Folder labelled 'F layer' in A.J. Lyon's hand, no date, c. 1947-1960

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.152
Scope and Contents

Folder labelled 'F layer' in A.J. Lyon's hand. The material consist of charts, graphs, and calculations, all by Lyon, no date, c. 1947-1960.

Dates: no date, c. 1947-1960
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / General Ionospheric Topics / Data and correspondence / Charts and data containing background information and research results

Folder labelled, "Paper for the Royal Society...Sunspot Cycle Influences on the Ionosphere", c. 1964

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.358
Scope and Contents

Folder labelled, "Paper for the Royal Society...Sunspot Cycle Influences on the Ionosphere". The material inside consists of 2 pages of manuscript notes and headings, with various suggested titles for a paper. No paper with this title is listed in Appleton’s writings, but he published a paper on ‘Sunspot-cycle control of ionospheric and geomagnetic variations' in Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, vol. 26, 1964.

Dates: c. 1964
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Sunspots and Solar Cycle

Folder of material on storms, no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.105
Scope and Contents

Folder of material on storms. It includes some copied by Mrs Pritchard, and some annotated by Appleton, etc.

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