Record

RefNoPB/2/1/2
Previous numbersB.2
LevelItem
TitleBlue notebook labelled on cover 'A' and on inside front cover 'Book A. P.M.S. Blackett. Magdalene College. If found please return to above address'.
Date1921-1922
Description2pp of drawings titled 'Dimensions of Expansion Chamber'.

Then follow a few entries for July 1921 and a long sequence (pp. 1-115) of notes from 11 October 1921 to 2 June 1922. This (and the following notebook, B.3) is a record of Blackett's first research at the Cavendish Laboratory (see Bernard Lovell, 'P.M.S. Blackett: A Biographical Memoir', Royal Society: 1976, pp6-7). B.3 is a catalogue of photographs while B.2 contains journal-like entries describing laboratory techniques, modifications to apparatus (see Lovell, 'Memoir', p6), quality of photographs, numerical data and measurements, calculations, hypotheses, sketches of apparatus.

Several pages of undated notes: 'Coil for Kapitza' (pp.116), 'Enlarging on to Imperial Process Plates' (p.117), 'Magnetometer' (p.120).

Next sequence of dated entries begins on 3 October 1922 to (appoximately) 2 November: record of photographs, measurements of angles, calculations, modifications of apparatus, notes on the literature, bibliography.

The notebook also contains 2p of notes on bird migration. The first lecture which Blackett gave was to the University Physics Undergraduate Society on the subject of bird migration.
Extent1 notebook
AccessStatusOpen
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