'One Single Weapon': a history of radar, 1946, with related notes, 1940-1945, by Marjorie Faith Barnard

MLMSS 887

fonds

1940-1946

938055

Microfilm : CY 4857

2 volumes and 1 box of textual material - manuscript and typescript

Marjorie Barnard, authoress, was born in 1897. While Librarian-in-charge at the National Standards, Radiophysics Laboratories of the C.S.I.R.O. she was commissioned to write a history of radar which she completed in 1946

VOLUMES 1-2
a. Draft copies of 'One Single Weapon'. Carbon typescript with MS. corrections and annotations and holograph title pages, 1946
The development of radar is traced from 1930-1945 in Europe and the Pacific

BOX 3
b. Notes used in compiling the above, 1940-1945, consisting mainly of narratives by member of the Radiophysics Laboratory of the C.S.I.R.O and military personnel acquainted with the use of radar in New Guinea and the Pacific. MS., typescript and carbon typescript.
Arranged by numbers corresponding to reference numbers used in the body of MS.
(Request Microfilm: CY 4857)

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (8-304B) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011