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Electromagnetic Waves

 Subject

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

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence from H.L. Kirke and K. Kreielsheimer to Edward Appleton, 1940, 1947

 File
Identifier: Coll-37/E.58
Scope and Contents

The material consists of correspondence from H.L. Kirke to Edward Appleton, dated 1940, relating to the propogation of short waves (for the B.B.C.); and from K. Kreielsheimer to Appleton, dated 1947.

Dates: 1940, 1947
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Correspondence

Report, 'Rapport sur la detection électromagnétique par la télégraphie militaire' and copy of typescript letter from R.A. Watson-Watt, 1935-1936, 1945

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.248
Scope and Contents

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.



Dates: 1935-1936, 1945
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Radar

‘Summary of Reports on W. G. Y’, August 1926-December 1926

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Identifier: Coll-37/C.276
Scope and Contents

‘Summary of Reports on W. G. Y’. the material consists of a 14 page manuscript account of radio reception at various wavelengths, dated August-December 1926. Author unknown.

Dates: August 1926-December 1926
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton / Research topics / Radio Reception