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Radar

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

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence, calculations and reports from F.M. Colebrook and J.M.C. Scott, 1940

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.252
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, calculations and reports from F.M. Colebrook and J.M.C. Scott, dated 1940. The material relates to scattering and it includes a copy of a paper by Scott as submitted to the R.D.F. [Radio Direction Finding] Application Committee of Ministry of Supply, October 1940.

Dates: 1940

Correspondence from colleagues of Edward Appleton, c. 1923-1943

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.261
Scope and Contents Correspondence from colleagues of Edward Appleton, mostly dated 1943 but containing earlier references. The material is mainly on the history and inventors of radar. It is filed in alphabetical order from:W.T. GriffithsAlbert Hoyt Taylor relating to British and American contribution to radar and enclosing a U.S. Senate document on 'Story of Radar'.A.G.Lee regarding events in 1932 and 1935 and enclosing a press-cutting.A.B. Moullin regarding...
Dates: c. 1923-1943

Correspondence from colleagues of Edward Appleton, 1931, 1944

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.262
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from colleagues of Edward Appleton, mostly dated 1944 but containing some earlier references. The material is mainly on the history and inventors of radar. It is filed in alphabetical order from:


W.A.S. Butement, enclosing a copy of his proposal for coastal defence radar, 1931.


R.G.Lloyd.


E.T. Paris, enclosing a request from F.E. Smith for an official record of early radar development to be kept.

Dates: 1931, 1944

Correspondence from colleagues of Edward Appleton, c. 1944

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.263
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from colleagues of Edward Appleton, mostly dated 1944 but containing some earlier references. The material is mainly on the history and inventors of radar. It is filed in alphabetical order from:


R.L. Smith-Rose, including copies of patents, photographs, and some research calculations.


R. Whiddington, enclosing a note by C.S. Prince on his early ‘squegger’ circuit.

Dates: c. 1944

Correspondence from L.S. Harley to Edward Appleton, 1945

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Identifier: Coll-37/E.47
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from L.S. Harley to Edward Appleton, dated 1945. The material includes comments on a draft broadcast script by Appleton, on radar.

Dates: 1945

Correspondence, papers and reports, 1943

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.260
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, papers and reports. The material relates to the supply and use of M.B.I. [what does MBI stand for?] equipment at Slough, mainly dated July 1943.

Dates: 1943

Drafts and notes, c. 1932-1946

 sub-subseries
Identifier: Coll-37/C.222-226
Scope and Contents

The material consists of 5 files containing material relating to Edward Appleton's research into meteors.

Dates: c. 1932-1946

Items on wartime radar, c. 1939-1945

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.270
Scope and Contents

Items on wartime radar. The material consists of press-cuttings on radar; photographs taken in 1944 by the R.R.D.E. [Radar Research and Development Establishment] at Beachy Head; Chart of German North Sea stations; and German report on radio technique, dated May 1940.

Dates: c. 1939-1945

Material relating to chapter for 'Textbook of radar Second Edition', c. 1945-1955

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.274
Scope and Contents

Material relating to chapter for 'Textbook of radar Second Edition'. It consists of a typescript draft, legends for plates, diagrams and photographs for 'Chapter XIX - Applications of radar to physical science' for a 'Textbook of radar Second edition'. Author unknown, the latest reference is 1951 but the overall data is unknown. In original folder.

Dates: c. 1945-1955

'Meteor detection by radar', 1946

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.223
Scope and Contents

'Meteor detection by radar'. The material consists of a 3 page press release for press visit to A.O.R.G. [Army Operational Research Group], Richmond Park, 9 October 1946; and a covering letter from J.S. Hey.

Dates: 1946