Dr. Donal B. Phaley with his heliostat and students Viola von Schneider and Lorena Sellers, Los Angeles, 1936

Item Overview

Title

Dr. Donal B. Phaley with his heliostat and students Viola von Schneider and Lorena Sellers, Los Angeles, 1936

Date Created

May 9, 1936

Date

1936-05-09

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the article, "Student Makes Device For Capturing Sun Rays," Los Angeles Times, 10 May 1936: A4.
Viola and Lorena stand behind Dr. Pheley, watching him as he holds a mirror over the heliostat.
Under the instruction of Dr. Pheley Los Angeles Junior College student George Huck has created a working model of a heliostat to demonstrate the use of such instruments as the giant Griffith Park Planetarium coelostat.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Capturing sunbeams used to be only a poet's fancy. Yesterday at Los Angeles Junior College they were making the dream a reality. With this heliostat the rays are held stationary by means of rotating mirrors. Instructor D. B. Pheley, its inventor, is shown with Lorena Sellers and Viola von Schneider, co-eds.
Text from negative sleeve: 5171 - LtR - D.B. Pheley Lorena Sellers Viola Von Schneider Heliostat 5-1-36 [stamped:] May 10 1936

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

von Schneider, Viola
Pheley, Donal B., 1898-1962
Sellers, Lorena
Los Angeles Junior College

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

34.087242

Latitude

-118.292676

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Heliographs (Apparatus)
Mirrors--California
Students--American--California--Los Angeles
Teachers--California--Los Angeles
Inventions