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BOOTH, Edgar Harold

Born Sydney 12 February 1893; died Sydney 18 December 1963. Education Sydney University (B.Sc. 1914, D.Sc. 1936). A.I.F. 1915-19. Senior lecturer physics, Sydney University, 1919-37. Consultant physicist, Imperial Geophysical Experimental Survey, 1928-30. Warden of New England University College 1937-45. London representative on the Australian Wool Board 1945-48. M.C. 1917.
  1. A concentrated developer for general use and some notes on its employment. Australasian Photographic Review, 29 (1922), 16-19; Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. Journal., 69 (1922), 168-169; Revue francaise de photographie, No.58 (May, 1922), 117-118.
  2. A convenient substitute for a telephoto lens with special references to the coming solar eclipse. Australasian Photographic Review, 29 (1922), 395-397.
  3. The Sydney University eclipse expedition to Goondiwindi, September 1922. Hermes, (November 1922), 164-169.
  4. Notes on plate exposures, and the subsequent photographic treatment adopted by the Sydney University eclipse expedition. Royal Society of New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings., 56 (1922), 185-192.
  5. Atmospheric dust and atmospheric ionisation. Royal Society of New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings., 57 (1923), 173-210.
  6. The microphone as a detector of small vibrations. Royal Society of New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings., 60 (1926), 305-317.
  7. Surface waves due to small artificial disturbances of the ground. Royal Society of New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings., 60 (1926), 318-330.
  8. (With R.L. Aston) Seismic methods. In Broughton Edge, A.B., and Laby, T.H., eds., The principles and practice of geophysical prospecting: being the report of the Imperial Geophysical Experimental Survey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1931. pp.194-233; 328-349.
  9. Early measurements and units of measurement, and how we obtained the systems we use today. Part I. British units of length and time. Environment, 1(1) (1933), 23-35.
  10. Early measurements and units of measurement, and how we obtained the systems we use today. Part II. British units of mass. Environment, 1(2) (1933), 39-43.
  11. (With J.M. Rayner) A magnetic survey in the vicinity of a granite bathylith. Royal Society of New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings., 67 (1933), 118-131.
  12. Early measurements and units of measurement, and how we obtained the systems we use today. Part III. The C.G.S. system. Environment, 1(3) (1934), 14-23.
  13. Magnets and magnetism. Environment, 1(3) (1934), 43-46.
  14. Atmospheric electricity. Environment, 2(2) (1935), 17-23.
  15. The historical development of science. I. Heat. Environment, 2(3) (1935), 10-20.
  16. A detailed regional magnetic survey as an aid to geological interpretation. District: Mittagong-Bowral. Royal Society of New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings., 69 (1935), 35-60.
  17. Some observations of zonal discordances in diurnal magnetic variations. Royal Society of New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings., 70 (1936), 338-342.
  18. The thermal conduction through a hollow glass brick. Royal Society of New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings., 70 (1936), 452-455.
  19. The atmosphere. Environment, 4(1) (1937), 24-27.
  20. The historical development of science. Some people who have studied our atmosphere. Environment, 4(1) (1937), 63-68.
  21. Presidential Address. A special application of geophysics: Geophysical prospecting. Royal Society of New South Wales. Journal and Proceedings., 71 (1937-38), 6-39.
  22. (With P.M. Nicol) Physics: fundamental laws and principles, with problems and worked solutions. Sydney: Australasian Medical Publishing Company, 1931. 648 pp.
  23. Elementary physics, descriptive, experimental and historical. Sydney: Australasian Medical Publishing Company, 1932. 3rd edition 1940, 465 + xvi pp.
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