Janus: The Papers of Edward George Bowen

Churchill/EGBN contains:
1	History of early warning radar
2	Development of airborne radar
3	Centimetre wave radio
4	The "Tizard mission" and development of microwave radar in the USA
5/1-46	Originals and photocopies of proceedings of Royal Commission on Awards to inventors, radar claims, April-November 1951
6	Bowen's radar patents
7	Bowen's biography, "Radar days"

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The Papers of Edward George Bowen

Title	History of early warning radar
Reference	EGBN 1
Covering Dates	1935–1978

Churchill/EGBN 1 contains:

Manuscript of "Short history of early warning radar" by Bowen.
1 folder.

December 1978–

Copy of catalogue of related documents at the Public Record Office, Kew, London.
1 folder.

ca. 1970–

Copy of comments on Post Office ultra-short wave experiments by A.F. Wilkins, Radio Research Station.
1 folder.

February 1935–

Copy of notes on "The birth of radar at the Radio Research Station, Ditton Park Slough" by A.F. Wilkins.
1 folder.

Copy of notes by Bowen proposing addition of Direction Finding to the range of measurement at Orfordness.
1 folder.

October 1935–

Copy of proposal by Bowen for an "R.D.F. Lighthouse" or P.P.I. System.
1 folder.

July 1938–

Copy of a second proposal by Bowen for ground control of fighters by P.P.I. Type display.
1 folder.

November 1939–

Copy of patent no. 582,494 for GCI/P.P.I. Equipment for Bowen and others.
1 folder.

December 1943–

Copy of Bowen's interview with American Professor Guerlac on the origins of British radar.
1 folder.

April 1943–

Reprint from "Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers" of an article "The scientific principles of radiolocation" by Sir Edward Appleton.
1 folder.

September 1945–

Copy of article from "Nature" entitled "The evolution of Radio location" by Sir Robert Watson-Watt.
1 folder.

Copy of Bowen's introduction to "Textbook of radar".
1 folder.

1947–

Copy of list of references to scientific origins of radar, compiled by T.R.E.
1 folder.

ca. 1960–

Letters and papers relating to Bowen's reports from American and Canadian laboratories and on R.D.F. work in North America.
1 folder.

1941–1943

Letters and papers relating to a proposed book on the life and work of Bowen.
1 folder.

1961–1964

Miscellaneous letters, papers, photographs and printed articles on radar.
1 envelope.

Microfilm of documents used in support of Bowen's claim for radar award.
1 roll in envelope.

ca. 1978–