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Physics

 Subject

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

Found in 908 Collections and/or Records:

'Propagation of waves in an ionized gas under the influence of a magnetic field', c. 1925-1943

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.199
Scope and Contents

'Propagation of waves in an ionized gas under the influence of a magnetic field'. The material consists of a 16 page draft by Edward Appleton in its original folder, 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

'Proposal for a Frequency-Modulation Navigation System' and 'Ultra Short Wave Radio' and 'Television', no date

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/D.22
Scope and Contents

Draft notes by Edward Appleton: 'Proposal for a Frequency-Modulation Navigation System'; 3 pages, manuscript, no date; and 'Ultra Short Wave Radio' and 'Television', 4 pages, manuscript, no date.

Dates: no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Lectures, speeches, publications

Quarto A, c1680-c1708

 Series — Box Dk.1.2: Series Coll-33/Quarto A; Series Coll-33/Folio B; Series Coll-33/Folio D; Series Coll-33/Folio E
Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A
Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory in Quarto A consist of: 107 manuscript papers and an index, relating to: theoretical physics, including optics, especially treatises on refraction and colour, on mechanics, specifically on velocity, gravitation, centrifugal and centripetal force, and the movement of solids through fluid, and an occasional thought on magnetic attraction. Applied physics, considering ships,...
Dates: c1680-c1708
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory

R. Naismith and R. Bailey: An automatic ionosphere recorder (D.S.I.R [Department of Scientific and Industrial Research] report), 1949

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/G.13
Scope and Contents

The material consists of report 'R. Naismith and R. Bailey: An automatic ionosphere recorder (D.S.I.R [Department of Scientific and Industrial Research] report)', dated 1949.

Dates: 1949
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Reports and printed matter / Preprints and limited circulation reports

Radio Reception, c. 1926-1950

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-37/C.275-C.287
Scope and Contents

This sub-series consists of 13 files containing material relating to Edward Appleton's research into radio reception, dated c. 1926-1950. It includes material on the Luxembourg Effect.

Dates: c. 1926-1950
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics

'Radio Waves of extra-terrestrial origin' and 'Radar development and scientific radio research', 1949

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/D.38
Scope and Contents

The material consists of 'Radio Waves of extra-terrestrial origin', the presidential address by Edward Appleton to the Science Masters' Association, Edinburgh, January 1949, a 26 page typescript (incomplete); and 'Radar development and scientific radio research', the recorded summary of Appleton’s address to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, March 1949, broadcast in Science Review, Scottish Home Service, 7 pages typescript and manuscript.

Dates: 1949
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Lectures, speeches, publications

R.D.F. Propagation at Centimetre Wavelengths’ [Radio Direction Finding], April 1943

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/C.259
Scope and Contents

R.D.F. Propagation at Centimetre Wavelengths’ [Radio Direction Finding]. A report from the Radiophysics Laboratory, Australia, dated April 1943.

Dates: April 1943
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Radar

R.D.F. [Radar Detection Finding] and radar, ionised air, recombination and negative ions and storms, 1913-1960

 File
Identifier: Coll-27/G.26
Scope and Contents

The material consists of offprints of papers (not by Edward Appleton), relating to R.D.F. [Radar Detection Finding] and radar, ionised air, recombination and negative ions and storms, 1913-1960.

Dates: 1913-1960
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Reports and printed matter / Offprints of published papers, not by Edward Appleton

Records of the Newtonian Society, Edinburgh

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-175
Scope and Contents

The records consist of a minute book covering 30 April 1760 to 27 November 1763, and also January 1764, and with the petition of A. Copland for membership, 17 December 1763. There is also a book of laws and the signatures of members of the Society, as well as a roll of miscellaneous questions to be debated.

Dates: 1760-1764
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Red loose-leaf ring-back notebook, c. 1957

 Item
Identifier: Coll-37/B.42
Scope and Contents

Red loose-leaf ring-back notebook. It contains notes, diagrams, ideas, comments on papers and theories by others. p. 1 has the heading 'I. G. Y.' (International Geophysical Year) and may refer to preparations for the 1957 meetings, or to earlier URSI [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] meetings at which the idea was discussed. It includes notes, perhaps for reports, on E layer and F layer studies, and notes on rockets.

Dates: c. 1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks