The Radio Noise Spectrum - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674180852 ISBN 13: 9780674180857

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1960

Synopsis

This modern era has had many names: the golden age, the machine age, the atomic age, the electronic age, and so on. One further title, hitherto unpublicized, it eminently deserves: the age of noise. Man has compounded the natural noise that preceded his existence on the earth until no point on this globe is free from it. Even in the desert's hush, radio waves pervade the air and provide a source of potential noise. The shorter waves escape from the earth and fill interplanetary space with the mingled clamor of FM, TV, radar, and other insistent voices.

This book deals with the important problem of radio noise, its sources, whether manmade or natural, over the known range of frequencies. Certain of these contributions will interest the communicator, enabling him to estimate the potential interference from various types of sources. Other contributions deal mainly with scientific problems, such as the origins and significance of certain characteristic noise radiations.

The contributors to this book are experts on the various phases of radio noise. The individual chapters derive from papers presented at a Conference on Radio Noise, held at Harvard College Observatory, April 22, 1958.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The book deals with cosmic radio waves exclusively and hence there is no place in it for radio studies of the sun, moon, and planets and for radar work in the solar system.

About the Author:

Menzel Donald H.

Donald H. Menzel was Director of Harvard College Observatory, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, and Professor of Astrophysics at Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1960
• ISBN 10: 0674180852
• ISBN 13: 9780674180857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 191
• Editor: Menzel Donald H.