Pavel Molchanov 1938 Atmosphere. Stratospheric flight air balloon rides.

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Pavel Molchanov The Atmosphere.
Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Moscow 1938 Leningrad. Pages 136.
Size 222 X 150 mm.
Pavel Molchanov (1893-1941)
was a Russian Soviet scientist-meteorologist, doctor of technical Sciences, Professor, inventor of the world's first radiosonde. Molchanov was repressed and shot in 1941.
The author is one of the developers of the first Soviet stratostats of the 1930s., also engaged in scientific research of atmospheric phenomena in the troposphere and stratosphere and their possible impact on the flight. The material of the book is grouped into sections: I. physics of the atmosphere. II. Meteorological elements and their measurement in the earth and in the free atmosphere. III. Methods of atmospheric research-a Historical review. Meteorographs. Method of radiosondes. - IV. The condition of atmospheric air. V. Cloud. VI. Wind. VII. The structure of the atmosphere-the Troposphere. Stratosphere... Undeniable historical and scientific interest are the chapters: Flights to the stratosphere. Flight of the stratosphere balloon `Osoaviakhim-01`. Stratospheric flight `USSR-1 bis`. Flights of American stratostats., as well as the development of catastrophic events and analysis of possible causes that caused the accident stratostat `osoaviahim-1` and the death of the crew ( eyewitness evidence of the impact on the ground, analysis of parts of the shell and gondola, the work of the Commission), in the development of which the author took an active part. Also in a separate Chapter the author is given a curious prediction: `the doctrine of the weather service of the national economy` - how to work dollzhny weather service, what is the probability of metaoffline; the measures necessary according to the results of certain forecasts , projections for the division 3 level and activity Multanowska described made polar aircraft and ground stations program of meteorological research, the role of the polar drifting `of Papanin's` station SP-1, priorities. Curious drawings and archival photographs of: exterior view of devices and equipment-hairline hygrometer, electric anemometer and anemometer fussa writing mechanism anemograph Steffens-Gede, aircraft meteorograph, radiosonde comb sistemy etc., charts and reference tables; photo: the Northern lights in an unusual kind of `drapery`, the cabin of the stratosphere balloon `Osoaviakhim-1` before the flight, the balloon `Explorer` before the start, Geiger counters, type shell `Explorer` after the accident, the horizon during the flight of the stratosphere balloon `Explorer` balloon `Explorer II` at the moment of shutter release shell `Explorer II`, a pattern - intended shell of the balloon `Osoaviakhim-1 in the accident.
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