Papers of W. Miller Goss > Radiophysics Facilities Series > Giant Radio Telescope (Parkes Telescope) Unit

Collection Items

Description: Miscellaneous general correspondence.
Start Date: 1953-01-06

Description: Correspondence, maps, reports, aerial photos.
Start Date: 1953-01-22

Description: Includes announcements and related materials.
Start Date: 1954-05-10

Description: Correspondence, multiple drafts, and full report on GRT specs.
Start Date: 1954-05-21

Description: Includes photocopies of 1954 typescript and 1955 print version.
Start Date: 1954-07-00

Description: Correspondence from recipients of copies of proposal sent by Bowen.
Start Date: 1955-05-24

Description: Correspondence and other materials re acquisition of site at Parkes for GRT. Includes press release materials.
Start Date: 1954-08-16

Description: Correspondence dated 1954-1960. Also includes 1 February 1992 Note for Records listing grant awards to Radiophysics from American foundations.
Start Date: 1954-04-14

Start Date: 1954-12-01

Description: Correspondence includes first references to Barnes Wallis.
Start Date: 1954-03-05

Description: Correspondence discussion early ideas and processes for GRT.
Start Date: 1955-04-14

Description: Mainly Pawsey, Bowen, and Barnes Wallis correspondence; includes reports.
Start Date: 1/25/1955

Description: Correspondence re design study for GRT. Bulk 1955-1956, two letters from 1958.
Start Date: 1955-06-07

Description: Minutes of meetings for July and August 1955, December 1957, January 1958,
Start Date: 1955-07-22

Description: Correspondence, press releases.
Start Date: 1955-12-17

Description: GRT financial records and reports, correspondence
Start Date: 1955-04-04

Description: Material from various sources, including Biographical Memoir of the Royal Society published 1981.

Description: Correspondence between Wallis and others re GRT. Bulk of correspondence is 1954-1960.
Start Date: 1954-09-23

Description: Discussion, description, drawings.
Start Date: 1955-09-00

Description: Correspondence with Nature and Australian Journal of Science.
Start Date: 1956-02-21

Description: Correspomndence re Merle Tuve visit to Radiophyics and discussion of GRT.
Start Date: 1956-07-16

Description: Correspondence to/from Minnett re GRT.
Start Date: 1956-01-18

Description: "Sydney Radio Telescope: Preliminary Report." Accompanying correspondence re an "Interim Report" which is not included.
Start Date: 1956-09-00

Start Date: 1956-09-11

Description: "Proposed Radio Telescope: Design Study by Freeman, Fox & Partners, September 1957."
Start Date: 1957-09-00

Description: Includes reports, minutes of Radio Astronomy Steering Committee.
Start Date: 1957-07-02

Description: Correspondence and reports on GRT progress.
Start Date: 1957-02-07

Description: RPL-122.
Start Date: 1957-07-00

Description: Includes accompanying data.
Start Date: 1958-03-12

Start Date: 1958--01-16

Description: Correspondence.
Start Date: 1958-01-14

Description: Minutes of nine meetings for 1958, one meeting each for 1962, 1969, 1970.
Start Date: 1958-09-15

Description: Correspondence and reports on GRT progress.
Start Date: 1958-01-03

Description: Correspondence and reports on GRT progress.
Start Date: 1959-03-03

Description: Correspondence re GRT, October-December 1959.
Start Date: 1959-10-05

Description: Correspondence with MAN re GRT. Bulk of correspondence 1959-1962.
Start Date: 1959-06-16

Description: Bulk of correspondence 1959-1962.
Start Date: 1959-05-06

Description: Contract documents with Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nurnberg (MAN) for construction of Giant Radio Telescope, the 210 foot telescope at Parkes. Folder #1: "Contract Documents;" folder #2: "Final Contract Documents."
Start Date: 1959-00-00

Description: Reports and proposals.
Start Date: 1959-08-26

Description: Correspondence re GRT. Includes biographical material gathered by Goss in 2011-2013 on Leonard Huxley.
Start Date: 1960-01-04

Description: Correspondence, reports.
Start Date: 1960-01-06

Description: Correspondence, reports.
Start Date: 1960-01-07

Description: Report by B.F. Cooper.
Start Date: 8/23/1960

Description: Correspondence, reports.
Start Date: 9/1/1960

Description: Meeting minutes, correspondence, reports.
Start Date: 1/29/1960

Description: Correspondence re GRT. Also includes correspondence between Rabi and Pawsey about AUI offer to Pawsey of NRAO directorship, as well as 2015 emails commenting on the 1961 correspondence.
Start Date: 1961-02-13

Description: Articles about the Parkes 210-Foot from 1961, 1962, 1964, 1968, 2019.
Start Date: 1961-01-00

Description: Correspondence, reports.
Start Date: 1961-03-03

Description: Correspondence and proposals re observing time at Parkes.
Start Date: 1961-01-02

Description: F.J. Kerr, RPP 708.
Start Date: 1962-08-00

Start Date: 1962-01-02

Description: Correspondence re occultations of radio galaxies using Parkes radio telescope.
Start Date: 1962-07-23

Description: Correspondence, proposals, reports.
Start Date: 1962-02-06

Description: Correspondence.
Start Date: 1963-07-02

Description: Correspondence re use of Parkes as receiving point for live TV broadcasts from Tokyo during 1964 Olympic Games.
Start Date: 1964-04-22

Description: Correspondence.
Start Date: 1964-12-00

Description: Report by Brian Cooper on visit to Berkeley, Stanford, Caltech, Aerospace Corp, and JPL.
Start Date: 1966-03-29

Description: Correspondence re damage to azimuth track and concrete beneath it.
Start Date: 1967-03-31

Description: Org chart with covering memo.
Start Date: 1968-02-22

Description: Correspondence, reports, photos; selected pages from 2001 book by Hamish Lindsay.
Start Date: 1968-11-17

Description: Correspondence re LBI experiments between Parkes and Canadian telescopes.
Start Date: 1968-04-05

Description: "Proposal for the Future Development of the Parkes Interferometer," draft, K.J. Wleeington, J.D. Murray, W.M. Goss, R.N. Manchester, J.L. Caswell.
Start Date: 1975-04-21

Description: Announcement, timeline, listing of key documents for display, Goss talk with editorial correspondence re preparation of Goss talk for published proceedings.
Start Date: 1981-00-00

Description: "This essay was prepared as part of the requirements for the 2001 Astronomy Internet Masters Semester 2 'Topics in the History of Astronomy' offered by the University of Western Sydney, Australia."
Start Date: 2001-00-00

Description: Correspondence, reprints, and Thomas autobiography.
Start Date: 2002-06-25

Description: Includes copies of Parkes @ 50 conference papers and list of arXiv links to papers, Goss notes, copy of Goss talk viewgraphs.
Start Date: 2011-00-00

Description: Undated informational booklet.

Description: Multiple drafts for portions of the Pawsey book chapters related to the GRT and Parkes. Most undated.

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