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IN recent years, references1,2 have been made to an unpublished letter (ref. No. 4386, to the secretary of the Radio Research Board, November 8, 1926) by R. A. Watson-Watt, in which he proposed the use of the term “ionosphere” in 1926. The text of this has never been quoted, and the relevant passage may be of interest.
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Ratcliffe, J. A., Electronics and Power, 36 (February 1966).
Rishbeth, H., and Garriott, O. K., Introduction to Ionospheric Physics, 48 (Academic Press, 1969).
Watson-Watt, R., Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 55, 273 (1929).
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GARDINER, G. Origin of the Term Ionosphere. Nature 224, 1096 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2241096a0
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