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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Jodrell Bank
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(Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories) Site in Cheshire, 32km/20m south of Manchester, where Bernard Lovell supervised the construction (1953–7) of what was then the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, with a dish reflector 76m/250ft in diameter. Jodrell Bank, a department of the university of Manchester, has been in the forefront of the study of distant radio sources, discovering several new pulsars and quasars. It also tracks artificial satellites and it received the first photographs of the surface of the moon, transmitted from the Soviet Luna 9 probe in 1966.
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