STRATOSPHERE HEAT
“THE POSITION PUT BALDLY.”
AUCKLAND PROFESSOR’S'VIEWS.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Aug. 29.
Commenting on the London cable about Professor Appleton’s discovery of a heat layer in the upper atmosphere, Professor R. W. Burbidge, of the Auckland University College, said that to that ultra short waves could not be of any use to broadcasting was putting the position too baldly. For instance it was intended to broadcast television by ultra short waves.
“Professor Appleton’s conclusions about the heat layer have been published recently in a science journal,” Professor Burbidge said. The heat belt was about 200 niiles from the earth. It was questionable whether it would not be possible to penetrate the layer by rocket devices. The source of the heat belt was the absorption of the sun’s rays and the energy from them in a small amount of matter, thus giving rise to high temperatures., High temperatures affected a number of electrons at those levels so that some could not be used in round-the-world communication by wireless.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)
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