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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xx, 1129, [3] pages. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. References. Author Index. Ex-library with some of the usual library markings (library stamps, glue stain inside the rear board and library call # on the front board. The front board has some weakness. Boards and spine are scuffed, Also includes 12-page pamphlet/registration form for the 10th Symposium on Engineering Aspects of Magnetohydrodynamics, to be held at M.I.T. in March 1969 (pencil notes p. 8 and small stain on p. 1). Reginald Leslie Smith-Rose was born in London on 2 April 1694 and the near-on 86 years of his life thus spanned a very large part of the development of the Science of radio. His long and distinguished career in radio effectively began immediately after World War I with his appointment to the Electricity Division of the National Physical laboratory. In 1928 he presented a major paper critically reviewing post-war work in 'Radio direction finding'. In the decades prior to and including World War II, Smith-Rose1s extensive work on RDF problems represented a major personal contribution to the successful development of radio navigational Systems and of 'radio location' (the name originally given in the United Kingdom to radar). Smith-Rose's concern with radio direction finding naturally led him to studies on the electrical properties of the ground and he made important pioneer contributions to knowledge in this area. With the practical extension of the radio spectrum to higher frequencies Smith-Rose later became concerned with tropospheric propagation at UHF and VHF and with various problems in radio meteorology. Among the areas addressed are Galactic and Extragalactic Space Research; Southern Hemisphere Anomalies; Optimization of Instrumentation of space Experiments from the Standpoint of Data Processing; Upper Atmosphere, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere and Radiation Belts; Solar Radiation and Interplanetary Medium; High-Energy Particles, IQSY Programs and Results; and Upper Atmosphere Studies With Rockets and Satellites.…