Probing the sky with radio waves from wireless technology to the development of atmospheric science
Part 1, Conceiving long-range propagation, 1901-19Part 2, Discovering the ionosphere, 1920-26 -- Part 3, Theory matters, 1926-35 -- Part 4, Conclusion.
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Chicago u.a.
Univ. of Chicago Press
2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Part 1, Conceiving long-range propagation, 1901-19Part 2, Discovering the ionosphere, 1920-26 -- Part 3, Theory matters, 1926-35 -- Part 4, Conclusion. 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. |
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| Beschreibung: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | XV, 361 S. Ill., graph. Darst 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780226034812 978-0-226-03481-2 9780226015194 978-0-226-01519-4 022627439X 0-226-27439-X |