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Found in 908 Collections and/or Records:

'Note on a property of an oscillating circuit', no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.238
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'Note on a property of an oscillating circuit', no date. The material consists of 3 manuscript pages of notes by Edward Appleton.

Dates: no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Oscillators / Drafts and notes by Edward Appleton

'Note on Dispersion Problem', c. 1925-1943

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.205
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'Note on Dispersion Problem'. The material consists of manuscript draft notes for a paper by Edward Appleton with a partial typed version attached, no date, c. 1925-1943.

Dates: c. 1925-1943
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Magneto-Ionic Theory / Notes and drafts for papers by Edward Appleton

'Note on the difference between British and tropical thunderstorms', no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.13
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'Note on the difference between British and tropical thunderstorms'. The material consists of 1 p. duplicated typescript prepared by Appleton for the Atmospherics Committee, Radio Research Board, C. B. Paper no.76 and p.2 only of typescript draft paper on atmospherics, no date. The material includes photographs.

Dates: no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Atmospherics / Notes and Drafts

'Note on the F2 layer "kink"', 22 January 1942

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.70
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'Note on the F2 layer "kink"'. The material consists of 1 page note reporting William Roy Piggott's observation and suggesting lines of investigation, typescript, signed and dated 22 January 1942.

Dates: 22 January 1942
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

'Note on the Geophysical Effects of an ionospheric irruption', Dec 1941, Mar 1944 and no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.4
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'Note on the Geophysical Effects of an ionospheric irruption'. The material consists of 4pp. manuscript note by Appleton, no date, brief 1 page note from William Roy Piggott, on absorption, December 1941 and 2 pp. manuscript note to Piggott by Appleton, on absorption formula, March 1944.

Dates: Dec 1941, Mar 1944 and no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Absorption

Note on the morphology of the F2 layer of the ionosphere', March 1944

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.21
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Note on the morphology of the F2 layer of the ionosphere'. The material consists of a 6 page typescript plus 2 pages of figures, with manuscript annotations, and a letter from R. L. Smith-Rose to Edward Appleton, dated March 1944, offering comments and which suggests that the work should be circulated as a Radio Research Board confidential paper.

Dates: March 1944
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Lectures, speeches, publications

Notebook, inscribed 'E. V. Appleton' on the cover, c. 1924

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.10
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Notebook, inscribed 'E. V. Appleton' on the cover. The notebook contains notes on the literature, mainly on oscillators. It is undated but it was bought in Haarlem, where Appleton is known to have visited Van der Pol in 1924

Dates: c. 1924
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks

Notes and calculations, 1935-1939

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.396
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The material consists of notes and calculations by Edward Appleton. It includes miscellaneous tabulations of data, dated 1935 and 1936, a letter from Appleton to G.F.C. Searle requesting advice, dated 1937 (see Coll-37/C.7) and a letter from R. Naismith to Appleton, dated 1939.

Dates: 1935-1939
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Additional Material / Absorption / 'General Theory of Absorption' / 'Absorption R.R.B. [Radio Research Board] Report' / Notes and drafts by Edward Appleton

Notes and calculations by Edward Appleton, c. 1934-1965 and no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.221
Scope and Contents Notes and calculations by Edward Appleton. The material is about or related to magneto­ionic research but was not included in the original folder. It consists of 'Some Unsolved Ionospheric Problems', 2 pages, no date but after 1943; 'Oblique Incidence', 1 page, c. 1934; a 4 page note 'To show that, assuming perfect reflection a tilted aerial can give no information of direction of reflected wave', no date, c. 1934; 6 pages of notes on vertical and oblique incidence, no date; and...
Dates: c. 1934-1965 and no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Magneto-Ionic Theory

Notes and communications on various problems in E layer research, sent to Appleton by W.R. Piggott, c 1947

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.45
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Notes and communications on various problems in E-layer research, sent to Appleton by W.R. Piggott. The majority of these are dated 1947.

Dates: c 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / E layer