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Description:: Royal W. Sorensen and three male students standing on three sides of switch mechanism on podium- or table-like structure, wtih other equipment in background
Date Created:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears with the article “Caltech Acquires ‘Ossie,’ Oscillograph to Photograph Atoms at Rate of 100,000,000 Per Second Unique Device.” Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 1928. “… known to well-informed electrical engineers as a cold cathode ray oscillograph which, in unscientific language, is a giant camera that records the antics of the electron particles composing an electric current. …” Caption reads: “Camera that Outspeeds Thought Snaps Atom. Ossie and His Keeper. C.D. Hayward, instructor in electrical engineering and research student at California Institute of Technology, with camera for photographing electrons.”
Date Created:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Close-up of a portion of oscillograph, with vacuum tube at center and cylindrical device at right
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Typed note attached to negative states "ground-breaking ceremonies at the California Institute of Technology yesterday for the $1,000,000 group of dormitories were featured by the use of a steam shovel, instead of the usual small spade, while an added appropriate touch was given by the punch, a synthetic concoction. Charles Dickerman is seen at controls of shovel. Sidney Zipser poises the bottle of punch (just before he dropped it) and Roscoe Downs poses in left foreground."
Date Created:: 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article White, Stella R., "Amazing Experiments Made on Sea Creatures," Los Angeles Times, 30 Jul. 1935: A5
Date Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “ATOM FACES NEW ATTACK: More Powerful ‘Gun’ Build Caltech Scientists Improve on Device Producing 16,000,000-Volt Rays,” Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 1935: A3.
Date Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: This photograph may be associated with the article, “ATOM FACES NEW ATTACK: More Powerful ‘Gun’ Build Caltech Scientists Improve on Device Producing 16,000,000-Volt Rays,” Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 1935: A3.
Date Created:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Group portrait of Albert Einstein with 7 other notables at a tribute dinner at Caltech. They are attired in full evening dress (white tie).
Date Created:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: The objectives of the weather conference are forecasting methods, cooperation between eastern and western meteorologists, and adoption by the Weather Bureau.
Date Created:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

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