Balloon altitude detection equipment at Elmas aerodrome
Date
1952
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height (print): 116mm
width (print): 159mm
width (print): 159mm
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Research staff (including a woman scientist or technician with clipboard?) overseeing ground monitoring equipment for balloons used in cosmic ray detection on the roof of the Meteorological Building at Elmas Aerodrome, Cagliari, Sardinina, May-June 1952.
The expedition’s objectives and results in sending recording equipment into the upper atmosphere to detect cosmic rays were outlined by the physicist Cecil Frank Powell FRS (1903-1969) in his descriptive report: “Memorandum on high altitude balloon flights in the Mediterranean” (Typescript, Bristol, 20 July 1952) from which this image is taken. His account states that: “The recovery of equipment in the Sardinian Expedition was made in the following way. The balloon carried a ‘radio-sonde’ transmitter by means of which its altitude could be determined from stations on the ground or at sea.”
The original caption reads: “ ‘Radio-sonde’ aerial and receiver (c) at Elmas aerodrome".
The expedition’s objectives and results in sending recording equipment into the upper atmosphere to detect cosmic rays were outlined by the physicist Cecil Frank Powell FRS (1903-1969) in his descriptive report: “Memorandum on high altitude balloon flights in the Mediterranean” (Typescript, Bristol, 20 July 1952) from which this image is taken. His account states that: “The recovery of equipment in the Sardinian Expedition was made in the following way. The balloon carried a ‘radio-sonde’ transmitter by means of which its altitude could be determined from stations on the ground or at sea.”
The original caption reads: “ ‘Radio-sonde’ aerial and receiver (c) at Elmas aerodrome".
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