Accidents and opportunities: a history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958-79
This paper explores the history of radio echo-sounding (RES), a technique of glaciological surveying that from the late 1960s has been used to examine Antarctica's sub-glacial morphology. Although the origins of RES can be traced back to two accidental findings, its development relied upon the...
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ftunivedinburgh:oai:era.ed.ac.uk:1842/2975 2023-07-30T03:57:44+02:00 Accidents and opportunities: a history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958-79 Siegert, Martin Turchetti, S. Dean, K. Naylor, S. 2008-09-01 617227 bytes application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2975 http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FBJH%2FBJH41_03%2FS0007087408000903a.pdf&code=db5ebba284368f99d563057d88374391 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087408000903 en eng Siegert, M., Turchetti, S., Dean, K., Naylor, S. (2008-09-01) Accidents and opportunities: a history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958-79, British Journal For The History Of Science 41(150) 417-444 0007-0874 http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FBJH%2FBJH41_03%2FS0007087408000903a.pdf&code=db5ebba284368f99d563057d88374391 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087408000903 http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2975 Article 2008 ftunivedinburgh https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087408000903 2023-07-09T20:35:30Z This paper explores the history of radio echo-sounding (RES), a technique of glaciological surveying that from the late 1960s has been used to examine Antarctica's sub-glacial morphology. Although the origins of RES can be traced back to two accidental findings, its development relied upon the establishment of new geopolitical conditions, which in the 1960s typified Antarctica as a continent devoted to scientific exploration. These conditions extended the influence of prominent glaciologists promoting RES and helped them gather sufficient support to test its efficiency. The organization and implementation of a large-scale research programme of RES in Antarctica followed these developments. The paper also examines the deployment of RES in Antarctic explorations, showing that its completion depended on the availability of technological systems of which RES was an integral part. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA - University of Edinburgh) Antarctic The British Journal for the History of Science 41 3 417 444 |
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This paper explores the history of radio echo-sounding (RES), a technique of glaciological surveying that from the late 1960s has been used to examine Antarctica's sub-glacial morphology. Although the origins of RES can be traced back to two accidental findings, its development relied upon the establishment of new geopolitical conditions, which in the 1960s typified Antarctica as a continent devoted to scientific exploration. These conditions extended the influence of prominent glaciologists promoting RES and helped them gather sufficient support to test its efficiency. The organization and implementation of a large-scale research programme of RES in Antarctica followed these developments. The paper also examines the deployment of RES in Antarctic explorations, showing that its completion depended on the availability of technological systems of which RES was an integral part. |
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Accidents and opportunities: a history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958-79 |
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Siegert, M., Turchetti, S., Dean, K., Naylor, S. (2008-09-01) Accidents and opportunities: a history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958-79, British Journal For The History Of Science 41(150) 417-444 0007-0874 http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FBJH%2FBJH41_03%2FS0007087408000903a.pdf&code=db5ebba284368f99d563057d88374391 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087408000903 http://hdl.handle.net/1842/2975 |
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