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Description:: Photograph of Alfred E. Mirsky conducting research at a lab bench at the William G. Kirckhoff marine laboratories of the California Institute of Technology. Mirsky is wearing a lab coat and he holds a glass tube above a test tube.
Date:: July 1935
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:: June 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: William Edwards Stephens, graduate research physicist at Caltech, assembled the atom smasher pictured.
Date:: August 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: For two years Dr. Bridges would work for hours at the garage of 1110 North Fair Oaks Avenue on his "Lightning Bug", an automobile he claims to improve safety, economy and roadability.
Date:: April 17, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, December 8, 1929, Touch Controls Niagara of Power, New Leash Curbs Voltage, Switch Devised at Caltech Tames Thunderbolts; Millikan and Sorensen Back Development. Scientist Demonstrates Novel Mechanism: Prof. R.W. Sorensen presses button which releases 1,000,000 volts into the new Millikan-Sorensen vacuum switch. … Its purpose is to shunt Niagaras of power from one track to another. … “Heretofore high-voltage currents have been controlled by means of switches immersed in oil … In our switch we substitute a vacuum for the oil.” …
Date:: 1929
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:: June 3, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Oscillograph mounted on wheeled cart, with dials and switches at center and conical device at top, with curved tube leading to hole in panel at left, in room with other equpiment in background
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Einstein Warns Europe's Civilization Menaced: Fear Perils Nations' Existence, He Says in Caltech Address; Service Held Solution." Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 1932.
Date:: January 25, 1932
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
Date:: 1928
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:: August 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

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