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The Kennelly-Heaviside Layer is also known as the E region or just as Heaviside Layer (after Oliver Heaviside). It is a layer of ionised gas occurring at 90-150km in altitude, one of several layers in the Earth's ionosphere. It reflects medium-frequency radio waves, and because of this reflection radio waves can be propagated beyond the horizon.

Propagation is affected by time of day. During the daytime the solar wind presses this layer closer to the Earth, thereby limiting how far it can reflect radio waves. On the night side of the Earth, the solar wind drags the ionosphere further away, thereby greatly increasing the range which radio waves can travel by reflection, called skywave. The extend of the effect is further influenced by the season (because of the differing distance between Earth and the Sun), and the amount of sunspot activity.

1 History

Its existence was predicted in 1902Events January-April January 28 The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. France, Loisy's L'evangile et l'Eglise which inaugurates the Modernist Crisis February 11 Police beat up universal suffrage independently and almost simultaneously by the American electrical engineer Arthur Edwin KennellyArthur Edwin Kennelly ( December 17, 1861 June 18, 1939), was an American engineer in electricity. Kennelly was born in Colaba, close to Bombay, India. He was the son of an Irish naval officer. In 1893, during his research in electrical engineering, he pr (1861-1949) and the British physicist Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925). However, it was not until 1924Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 See also 1924 in aviation 1924 in film 1924 in literature 1924 in mu that its existence was detected by Edward V. Appleton .

2 Cultural impact

The "Heaviside Layer" is used as a symbol for heaven (in the afterlife sense) in Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born March 22, 1948) is a highly successful British composer of musical theatre. Throughout his career he has produced 15 musicals, the scores to two films Gumshoe and The Odessa File and a Latin requiem mass.'s musical CatsThis article is about Cats the musical. For the animal, see cat. CATS The Musical is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber (ALW) in 1981 based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. Cats was first shown in London's West End, at New London Theatr. This reference is based on a quote found in a letter written by T. S. EliotThomas Stearns Eliot ( September 26, 1888 January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. Life and work Eliot was born into a prominent Unitarian Saint Louis, Missouri family; his fifth cousin, Tom Eliot, was C, whose book Old Possum's Book of Practical CatsOld Possum's Book of Practical Cats is a set of whimsical poems by T. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology. It was first published in 1939. The work is known for inspiring and supplying most of the words to the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber musi forms the basis of the musical.

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