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

Found in 908 Collections and/or Records:

P. Lejay: Study of the ionosphere at Shanghai, 1940

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/G.4
Scope and Contents

The material consists of a report P. Lejay: Study of the ionosphere at Shanghai, translated from the French in English and with comments by WJG Beynon and WR Piggott, dated 1940.

Dates: 1940
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Reports and printed matter / Preprints and limited circulation reports

Papers and drafts by Edward Appleton on the E layer, c. 1964-1966

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.64
Scope and Contents Papers and drafts by Edward Appleton on the E layer. The material consists of 'On Seasonal and Non-Seasonal Anomalies in the E Layer', 7 page typescript for a paper; ‘A Further Note on the E Layer Seasonal Anomaly', 3 pages of manuscript notes, dated March 1965 (These notes are reproduced in facsimile in the Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics article from 1971); notes introducing the Gifford Lecture, April 1965, 3 pages, manuscript; and ‘Some Radio...
Dates: c. 1964-1966
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Lectures, speeches, publications / 'Appleton's last note on the E-region anomaly'

Papers of Alfred Daniell

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-260
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of bundles of manuscript problems in physics, with a mathematical introduction.

Dates: 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Professor Charles Glover Barkla

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-296
Scope and Contents
  1. Lectures and notes, 1903, 1917 (E91.105)
  2. Citation for the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1917 (E96.23)
  3. Congratulatory telegrams on the award of the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1918-1919 (E96.10)
Dates: 1903-1919
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Professor Sir David Wallace

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1540
Scope and Contents Papers of Professor Sir David Wallace containing undergraduate lecture notes, research material, contracts, presentations and notebooks from the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre work; lectures and course material; off-prints; personal papers; and miscellaneous material.The material is arranged as follows:Undergraduate lecture notes and tutorials, Edinburgh University, 1963-1968: this section contains material related to Wallace's undergraduate...
Dates: 1963-1990
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton

 Fonds — Box MS.2300
Identifier: Coll-37
Scope and Contents The papers, which are substantial, deal almost exclusively with Appleton's scientific work. There is little personal or private correspondence and almost no surviving material, apart from lectures, speeches and addresses, relating to his public life as scientific administrator or university principal. There are, however, a good run of diaries and engagement books and extensive folders of notes, research ideas, manuscript calculations and data from all periods of Appleton's career, as well as...
Dates: c 1918-1973
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Papers presented at Brussels, 1948

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.364
Scope and Contents

The material consists of a tagged folder, labelled 'Letters A', with list of papers 6-13 presented at Brussels stuck on the inside front cover. Not all of the papers listed are contained in the folder, however.

Dates: 1948
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / U.R.S.I [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale/International Union of Radio Science]

Papers relating to CX/WP 54, 1945

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.7
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to CX/WP 54.The material mainly refers to papers on 'Ionospheric Absorption Measurements' and 'Suggestions for an Absorption Programme' received by the Combined Communications Board Wave Propagation Committee and discussed at its meeting on 16 May 1945. Also Included are 4 pp. manuscript comments by William Roy Piggott on the CX/WP 54 papers, on behalf of Radio Research Board.

Dates: 1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Absorption

Part of manuscript draft for a lecture on James Clerk Maxwell, 1931

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

Part of manuscript draft for a lecture on James Clerk Maxwell by Edward Appleton, pages 1 and 8-10 only.

Dates: 1931
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Lectures, speeches, publications / Lectures on James Clerk Maxwell

Pendulums,, c1780-c1803

 Item
Identifier: Coll-204/27
Scope and Contents

Volume contains manuscript notes on pendulums and related machinery in clocks. Numerous diagrams intersperse, some of them quite grand. At the rear of the volume are several essays on projectiles.

Dates: c1780-c1803
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison