Communications and plotting room at Elmas aerodrome
Date
1952
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Dimensions
height (print): 113mm
width (print): 157mm
width (print): 157mm
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Description
Interior view showing research staff and equipment employed for launch an recovery operations used in cosmic ray detection flights by balloons launched from the aerodrome on Sardinia, 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 island provided reasonable technical facilities, particularly through colleagues in the University of Cagliari, and through the assistance of the Meteorological Service of the Italian Air Force at the aerodrome”.
The original caption reads: “Radio-communications and plotting room 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 island provided reasonable technical facilities, particularly through colleagues in the University of Cagliari, and through the assistance of the Meteorological Service of the Italian Air Force at the aerodrome”.
The original caption reads: “Radio-communications and plotting room at Elmas aerodrome”.
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