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Probing the Sky with Radio Waves : From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science /
By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. What no one could understand, however, was why radio waves followed the curvature of the Earth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Chicago Press,
[2013]
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t 1. Introduction: From Propagation Studies to Active Sensors -- |t 1. Conceiving Long-Range Propagation: 1901-19 -- |t 2. Theorizing Transatlantic Wireless with Surface Diffraction -- |t 3. The U.S. Navy and the Austin-Cohen Formula -- |t 4. Synthesis with Atmospheric Reflection -- |t 2. Discovering The Ionosphere: 1920-26 -- |t 5. Radio Amateurs Launch the Short-Wave Era -- |t 6. From the Skip Zone to Magneto-Ionic Refraction -- |t 7. British Radio Research and the Moments of Discovery -- |t 8. Pulse Echo, CIW, and Radio Probing of the Ionosphere -- |t 3. Theory Matters: 1926-35 -- |t 9. Consolidating a General Magneto-Ionic Theory -- |t 10. Handling Microphysics -- |t 4. Conclusion -- |t 11. A New Way of Seeing the World -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index |
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| 520 | |a By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. What no one could understand, however, was why radio waves followed the curvature of the Earth. Theorists puzzled over this for nearly twenty years before physicists confirmed the zig-zag theory, a solution that led to the discovery of a layer in the Earth's upper atmosphere that bounces radio waves earthward-the ionosphere. In Probing the Sky with Radio Waves, Chen-Pang Yeang documents this monumental discovery and the advances in radio ionospheric propagation research that occurred in its aftermath. Yeang illustrates how the discovery of the ionosphere transformed atmospheric science from what had been primarily an observational endeavor into an experimental science. It also gave researchers a host of new theories, experiments, and instruments with which to better understand the atmosphere's constitution, the origin of atmospheric electricity, and how the sun and geomagnetism shape the Earth's atmosphere. This book will be warmly welcomed by scholars of astronomy, atmospheric science, geoscience, military and institutional history, and the history and philosophy of science and technology, as well as by radio amateurs and electrical engineers interested in historical perspectives on their craft. | ||
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| 546 | |a In English. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Amateur radio stations |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Atmospheric physics -- History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Atmospheric physics |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Radio waves -- Research -- History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Radio waves |x Research |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Radio waves. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SCIENCE / General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 653 | |a wireless technology, atmospheric science, radio waves, zig-zag theory, atmosphere, ionosphere, engineering, innovation, discovery, research, history, nonfiction, instruments, experiments, geomagnetism, sun, electricity, electrical engineers, philosophy, military, geoscience, astronomy, physics, active sensors, propagation studies, ionic refraction, navy, polarization. | ||
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