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

Found in 908 Collections and/or Records:

Small hardback notebook, inscribed inside 'E.V. Appleton...Edinburgh', c. 1960

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.44
Scope and Contents

Small hardback notebook, inscribed inside 'E.V. Appleton...Edinburgh'. It contains notes for speeches and talks, several intended for a medical audience, some scientific notes, and several references to I.G.Y. [International Geophysical Year]. The latest reference is dated 1960.

Dates: c. 1960

Small notebook '1', dated 'April 2nd 1923', 2 April 1923-1924

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.6
Scope and Contents

Small notebook numbered '1', dated 'April 2nd 1923' and inscribed inside 'E.V. Appleton, St. John's College, Cambridge. Please return'. Some entries are dated 1924. The notebook contains notes and ideas on research carried out or projected on triode, circuits, etc., notes on the literature, or of discussion with Van der Pol ('Balth'). Back cover and page contain lists of papers 'Published', 'Possible' and 'Projected'.

Dates: 2 April 1923-1924

Small notebook '2', no inscription, c 1931-1932

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.7
Scope and Contents Notebook numbered '2', but with no other inscriptions. The notebook contains notes and ideas for research, 'Suggestions for articles' (on oscillators), headings for discussion meeting, work on absorption, 'Points for short wave paper', notes possibly of conference contributions by Bohr, Chapman and others. Includes some material on Tromsö (c.1931) and a note 'Good wave-traps in W.W. '(Watson-Watt) dated '16/9/32'. This book also contains a note (undated) 'Could an aeroplane get us direction...
Dates: c 1931-1932

Small notebook '3' , with an indistinct date '1925' on cover, c.1925-1932

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.8
Scope and Contents

Small notebook numbered '3' , with an indistinct date '1925' on cover. The notebook contains notes and ideas for research, notes on a paper by Watson-Watt, notes for 'Progress Report RRB' (Radio Research Board) dated '2/6/27', notes on URSI [Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale] meeting, note 'Try spark method of Breit and Tuve', other notes dated 1928, 1932, narrative on aurora referring to 'Tromsö last year' (c. 1932), drawings of spectra, etc.

Dates: c.1925-1932

Small red notebook, c. 1962

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Identifier: Coll-37/B/47
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Small red notebook. This item has hardly been used and the latest datable reference in it is from 1962.

Dates: c. 1962

Small red spiral-bound notebook, no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.48
Scope and Contents

Small red spiral-bound notebook, no date. It contains notes and drafts on electron density, Sq curves, etc., notes and anecdotes for speeches.

Dates: no date

Small softcover notebook, inscribed inside 'E. V. Appleton, 16 Old Queen St...S.W. 1.' , c. 1941

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

Small softcover notebook, inscribed inside 'E. V. Appleton, 16 Old Queen St...S.W. 1.' The notebook contains notes on the literature and many research ideas on a wide variety of topics in ionosphere. The latest dated reference is 1941.

Dates: c. 1941

Soft-backed notebook, front only used, no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.9
Scope and Contents

Soft-backed notebook, front only used, no date. The notebook contains calculations and graphs of experiments with oscillators.

Dates: no date

Soft-cover notebook, no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.49
Scope and Contents

Soft-cover notebook, no date. It mainly contains notes on linear equations. Only a few pages have been used, at the front of the notebook.

Dates: no date

'Solar activity' and 'The Progress of Geomagnetism', 1939

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.16
Scope and Contents

The material consists of 'Solar Activity', 4 pages of manuscript notes and 1 page introduction for of a lecture by Edward Appleton, Manchester, 1939; a 3 page talk on a similar subject; and 'The Progress of Geomagnetism', a review article of 'Geomagnetism' by S. Chapman and J.G. Bartels, no date, c.1940.

Dates: 1939