| Description | After the end of World War II, P M S Blackett and A C B Lovell assembled a group of radar researchers in Manchester. They established themselves at Jodrell Bank, a field twenty miles south of Manchester that was owned by the University.
These paper comprise the smallest series of the Hanbury Brown papers. Contains an early letter to J A Ratcliffe in which Hanbury Brown outlines a radio interferometer of high resolution, pen-recorded inscriptions of signals from Cassiopeia and Sirius, and a notebook with measurements on Sirius that provided practical vindication of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect. There are memoranda and proposals on instruments, notably the steerable radio telescope and the interferometer that was eventually built in Narrabri. The development of this latter instrument is further documented by a notebook containing detailed calculations and tests of sample equipment for the future NSII. A number of photographs show various Jodrell Bank individuals and apparatus. |