Cosmic noise a history of early radio astronomy

Object detail

Accession number

15-4138

Maker

Woodruff Turner Sullivan

Description

Searching for solar Hertzian waves -- Jansky and his star static -- Grote Reber : science in your backyard -- Wartime discovery of the radio sun -- Hey's army group after the war -- Radiophysics Laboratory, Sydney -- Ryle's group at the Cavendish -- Lovell at Jodrell Bank -- Other radio astronomy groups before 1952 -- Meteor radar -- Reaching for the moon -- The radio sun -- Radio stars -- Theories of galactic noise -- The 21 cm hydrogen line -- New astronomers -- A new astronomy.

Signature/Marks and Type

Telecommunications section
MOTAT Ink Stamp

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Paper

Physical description

xxxii, 542 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

ISBN/ISSN

9780521765244
0521765242

Credit line

Woodruff Turner Sullivan. 2009. Cosmic noise a history of early radio astronomy, 15-4138. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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Book Communication Artefacts Documentary Artefacts Other Documents

Production place

Cambridge Cambridgeshire England Great Britain British Isles Europe Great Britain United Kingdom

Subject: all levels

<C> Radio astronomy

Collection type

Published Titles Walsh Memorial Library

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