WEB SITES

Organisations

Science and Techonology Facilities Council

http://www.stfc.ac.uk

STFC Freedom of Information Website

http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About+STFC/10655.aspx

Historical Manuscripts Commission
National Register of Archives

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives/hmc_pubs.htm

National Physical Laboratory NPL

http://www.npl.co.uk

Radio Society of Great Britain

http://www.rsgb.org

Science Museum

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk

Space Science at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

http://www.stfc.ac.uk/RALSPACE/default.aspx

The Royal Society

http://royalsociety.org

UK Solar System Data Centre

http://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/

People

Sir Edward Appleton

Correspondence and Papers of Sir Edward Victor Appleton at The University of Edinburgh
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/appleton_edward.shtml
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1947/appleton-bio.html
http://www.npl.co.uk/educate-explore/history-of-npl/npl-directors/sir-edward-victor-appleton

Sir Robert Watson-Watt

National Library of Scotland
http://resource.npl.co.uk/docs/educate_explore/history/history_of_npl.pdf
http://www.radarpages.co.uk/people/watson-watt/watson-watt.htm

Ditton Park Staff

Yahoo group for former Ditton Park staff at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DittonPark/

General Interest

Illustrated History of Ionospheric Science

http://www.ukssdc.ac.uk/ionosondes/history/

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JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Ratcliffe, J.A."Appleton as a Radio Scientist." Electronics and Power (February 1996)
• Smith-Rose, R.L."Early Days in Radio Research." Electronics and Power (July 1967): 253-258.
• Gardiner, G.W., Lane, J.A., Rishbeth, H. "Radio and Space Research at Slough 1920-1981." The Radio and Electronic Engineer Vol.52, No.3 (March 1982): 111-112.
• Ratcliffe, J.A."Radio and Space Research Station." The Institute of Physics and the Physical Society (October 1965): 381-389.

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