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Found in 908 Collections and/or Records:

Thick notebook, inscribed 'E. V. Appleton' on page edges, front few pages only used, c. 1927

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.18
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Thick notebook, inscribed 'E. V. Appleton' on page edges, front few pages only used. The notebook mainly contains notes on the literature and the latest date is 1927.

Dates: c. 1927
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks

Thick notebook, inscribed inside 'Simultaneous Measurements in Downcoming Rays', December 1927-August 1928

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.16
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Thick notebook, inscribed inside 'Simultaneous Measurements in Downcoming Rays'. Inside the front cover is a list of experiments numbered 47-62,dated December 1927 to August 1928 (not all of these were completed), of reception data received at Cambridge, Peterborough and King's College.

Dates: December 1927-August 1928
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks

Thick notebook, inscribed on cover 'Atmospheric Data' (not in Appleton's hand), December 1924-25 August 1927

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Identifier: Coll-37/B.13
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Thick notebook, inscribed on cover 'Atmospheric Data' (not in Appleton's hand). Inside the notebook is inscribed 'Wheatstone laboratory' in Appleton's hand and 'May 1925' in another hand. Inside the notebook the early entries begin December 1924 in Appleton's hand, headed 'Tests of Constancy of 2LO intensity from fading experiments'. Entries continue with dated experiments to 25/8/27, not in Appleton's hand but with occasional notes by him.

Dates: December 1924-25 August 1927
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Scientific notebooks

'Third Note on the Morphology of the F2 layer of the Ionosphere' , c. 1943-1944

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.76
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'Third Note on the Morphology of the F2 layer of the Ionosphere'. The material consists of a 4 page manuscript draft. Appleton's first and second notes on the morphology of the F2 Layer were confidential D.S.I.R. [Department of Scientific and Industrial Research] documents 1943 and 1944 respectively. No third note is listed in the bibliography of his writings.

Dates: c. 1943-1944
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

Titles for report to Radio Research Board, and for papers, c. 1936-1945

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.392
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Titles for report to Radio Research Board, and for papers, c. 1936-1945. The material consists of 3 pages of notes by Edward Appleton of research ideas; 3 pages of brief notes on absorption; 1 page 'Outline of a comprehensive theory of absorption'; 1 page introduction on 'Ionospheric Absorption Measurements during a Sunspot Cycle' (after 1944); and 1 page draft on 'Solar Flares and Ionospheric Catastrophe'.

Dates: c. 1936-1945
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

Tractata cum Hugenio - Hage Com. Maio 1693 (from index), 16 May 1693-18 May 1693

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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [8]
Scope and Contents Conversation notes pertaining to a meeting with Christiaan Huygens in the Netherlands. Entry for 16 May 1693, following a jotted chapter citation (see note) and a squib about the glass used in microscopes, is an agenda for the discussion topics, which are to include foliate curves, Huygens' dioptrics (laws of refraction), compound 'astroscopes', gravitational theory of (his Oxford colleague from Switzerland,) Fatio de Duillier, a celestial-motion machine, a new pendulum for Huygens'...
Dates: 16 May 1693-18 May 1693
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Quarto A

Transcripts of a programme on the occasion of C.T.R. Wilson's 90th birthday, February 1959

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Identifier: Coll-37/D.57
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The material consists of a transcripts of a programme on the occasion of C.T.R. Wilson's 90th birthday, broadcast on the Scottish Home Service, February 1959. Edward Appleton contributed a tribute to Wilson on the programme but this is not included in folder.

Dates: February 1959
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Lectures, speeches, publications

Translations from German and Russian articles on ionosphere , no date

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Identifier: Coll-37/G.19
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The material consists of translations from German and Russian articles on the ionosphere, no date.

Dates: no date
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Reports and printed matter / Preprints and limited circulation reports

Treatises, c1780-c1802

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Identifier: Coll-204/7
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Illustrated print and manuscript treatises on the geometry of motion.

Dates: c1780-c1802
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Lecture Notes of John Robison

Two notes by A.R. Meetham, 1942

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.3
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Two notes by A.R. Meetham, 1942. The material consists of ‘Absorption and scattering of radio waves by electrons', 1 p., 13 May 1942 and ‘Absorption of radio waves by thermal motion of electrons', 2 pp. 9 July, sent with a covering letter saying, 'it is far less intuitive than my note of May 13', 10 July 1942. Also included here is a 1 page note by William Roy Piggott on 'Dr. Meetham's paper', dated 4 August 1942.

Dates: 1942
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Absorption