Radar

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The material consists of 3 pp. typescript and manuscript notes for ‘Lecture version' of paper on 'Radar detection of meteor trails and allied phenomena', with a letter from R. Naismith including comments and amendments for the published version; a 1 page account of Appleton’s and Naismith's work on meteors from 1932 to 1946; and a list of slides for the lecture.

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Offprint, and English translation of an Italian article on wireless range-finding. The material consists of 4 pages only of a report on German detection of English aircraft, dated September 1939.

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...

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The material consist of a 1 page press-release on radar awards to R.A. Watson-Watt, January 1952; an address by Edward Appleton at the Conference of School of Scottish Studies, May 1952; and Appleton’s notes for speeches in Australia, 1952.

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'Programme of the Division of Radiophysics'. The material consists of a report by E.G. Bowen on Australian research, dated August 1946.

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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.

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

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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.

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Report on ‘Alexandra Palace Tests' by T.L. Eckersley, dated January 1945. The material relates to on tropospheric propagation and it contains a letter from Appleton and comments on the article by R. L. Smith-Rose.

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Report in French, 'Rapport sur la detection électromagnétique par la télégraphie militaire' [Report on electromagnetic detection by military telegraphy], 1935. The material was sent to Appleton with a covering letter dated 1945 and a note at the end of the report describes it as the only surviving document on French pre-war research of that type, all other records having been destroyed in 1940.