File: Department of Radio-Astronomy

Scope and Content

File relating to the Department of Radio-astronomy, mostly concerned with the Mark VA project, although there is also some material on the development of the Mark II and III telescopes. but there is Includes a paper on the future of radio-astronomy in Britain by Bernard Lovell and Martin Ryle, submitted to the Department for Scientific and Industrial Research in 1960.

Former reference: 227

Related Material

See also the Jodrell Bank Observatory archive, JBA and Vice-Chancellor's files VCA/7/734, 735 and 736 for the Observatory's activities in the period covered by this file.