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Letter on behalf of George Lee, Director of Communications Development at the Ministry of Aircraft Production, on a paper 'Short period fluctuations in the characteristics of wireless echoes from the ionosphere' by Thomas Lydwell Eckersley and F T Farmer to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society

Reference number: RR/67/112

Date: 29 October 1940

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The paper has been read by experts who think the technique described in it is well-known and 'no undesireable knowledge will be given away to the enemy by its production'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1945].

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RR/67/112
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29 October 1940
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Letter on paper
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1 page
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Letter on behalf of George Lee, Director of Communications Development at the Ministry of Aircraft Production, on a paper 'Short period fluctuations in the characteristics of wireless echoes from the ionosphere' by Thomas Lydwell Eckersley and F T Farmer to J D Griffith Davies, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 29 October 1940, RR/67/112, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_112/letter-on-behalf-of-george-lee-director-of-communications-development-at-the-ministry-of-aircraft-production-on-a-paper-short-period-fluctuations-in-the-characteristics-of-wireless-echoes-from-the-ionosphere-by-thomas-lydwell-eckersley-and-f-t-farmer-to-j-d-griffith-davies-assistant-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 09 December 2024

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