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

Found in 908 Collections and/or Records:

List of ionospheric stations operating 1933-48 (B.B.C.), 1948

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Identifier: Coll-37/G.10
Scope and Contents

The material consits of a report, 'List of ionospheric stations operating 1933-48 (B.B.C.)', dated 1948.

Dates: 1948

List of participants at Brussels meeting with papers and reports, 1954

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Identifier: Coll-39/C.373
Scope and Contents

List of participants, copies of papers read and reports presented on ionospheric research at the Brussels meeting, in 1954. The material includes W.J.G. Beynon's report, papers by Edward Appleton and A.J. Lyon, etc.

Dates: 1954

Longer drafts for papers, some accompanied by comments by R. Naismith and L.J. Ingram, no date

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

Longer drafts for papers, some accompanied by comments by R. Naismith and L.J. Ingram, no date. N.B. Not all of these refer exclusively to E-layer but deal also with equivalent height, critical frequency, etc. Includes: 7 page sequence ‘The Nature of Electric Wave Reflection', pp.5-6 of a sequence, 8 page sequence, 1937, heavily, corrected and annotated, 'Some Notes on the interpretation of P’f records’.

Dates: no date

Loose-leaf ring-back notebook, c. 1935-1942

 Item
Identifier: Coll-37/B.33
Scope and Contents

Loose-leaf ring-back notebook. Contains notes and calculations, probably made over a considerable period. The notebook begins with and extensive sequence on 'Aerials', perhaps for a course of lectures, continues with notes on scattering, etc., typescript and manuscript bibliography on waves (the latest date is 1942), 2 pp. manuscript note on 'Effects of Bombing on Structures'.

Dates: c. 1935-1942

Loose pages of notes and calculations originally tucked into Coll-37/B.13, c. 1924-1927

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.14
Scope and Contents

Loose pages of notes and calculations originally tucked into Coll-37/B.13. Some of these are dated 1926

Dates: c. 1924-1927

Loose pages of notes and calculations originally tucked into Coll-37/B.16, 1928

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.17
Scope and Contents

Loose pages of notes and calculations originally tucked into notebook Coll-37/B.16, various dates in 1928. Includes a letter regarding research from A. L. Green, 1928 (Appleton published a collaborative paper with Green in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 128, 1930).

Dates: 1928

Loose pages of notes and shorter narratives, originally found inside Coll-37/C. 9 on energy spectra and atmospherics, no date and 1931

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.10
Scope and Contents

Loose pages of notes and shorter narratives, originally found inside Coll-37/C. 9 on energy spectra and atmospherics , no date, but one page is dated 1931, and one page ends 'To be Continued. I find it takes time to elicit facts from my MSS [manuscripts] and to delay posting to you. E. V. A. [Edward Victor Appleton]'(Addressee unknown).

Dates: no date and 1931

Loose pages of notes, calculations and narratives by Edward Appleton, c. 1925-1943

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.211
Scope and Contents

The material consists of loose pages of notes, calculations and narratives by Edward Appleton, one dated 26 April 1929 and one with reference to detection of an aeroplane, dated 1936.

Dates: c. 1925-1943

Loose pages of notes on tests, and tabulated results, originally tucked into Coll-37/B.19, February 1928-April 1929, 1951

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.20
Scope and Contents

Loose pages of notes on tests, and tabulated results, originally tucked into notebook Coll-37/B.19 and dated February 1928-April 1929. It includes a sheet of records for Tromsö, dated 1951.

Dates: February 1928-April 1929, 1951

Loose pages originally tucked into Coll-37/B.31A, c. 1936-1938

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.31B
Scope and Contents

Loose pages originally tucked into Coll-37/B.31A. These includes notes on 'Tides in the Upper Atmosphere' and Light of the Night Sky', notes on' Lunar Tides in Region E', with analysis of experiments 1937-38 and correspondence from J. E. Best, 1936 and J. A. Ratcliffe [John Ashworth Ratcliff], no date.

Dates: c. 1936-1938