The objectives of the weather conference are forecasting methods, cooperation between eastern and western meteorologists, and adoption by the Weather Bureau.
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.
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
Portion of a wind tunnel. There is a window on one of the tunnels and wooden ladders surrounding it. Reported in "CALTECH TESTS WIND IN TUNNEL: Guggenheim Graduate Unit Trying Out Planes," Los Angeles Times, 21 Jul. 1929: A1.
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.
Scientists Lieutenant-Colonel L. M. (Lewis Milton) Adams and Captain H. R. Zimmer testing Radium Atomite at Caltech. Photo appears with the article, "Radium-Atomite Tried Out: Tests at Caltech Expected to Result in Use of Local Invention in Warfare," Los Angeles Times, 26 May 1928: A3.
Related to 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. …”
Entrance to Kerckhoff Hall at Caltech. At the top of the entrance there is a sign that reads, " William G. Kerckhoff Laboratories of the Biological Sciences."
Exterior view of the High Voltage Research Laboratory (now the Alfred P. Sloan Laboratory of Mathematics and Physics, (1201 E. California Blvd)) at Caltech.
Exterior view of the front of Throop Hall at Caltech. Built in 1910, it was one of the original campus buildings. It was demolished following the 1971 earthquake because it had been damaged beyond repair.
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.
Dr. Clark B. Millikan on ladder looking into Caltech wind tunnel while another man observes from below. Reported in "CALTECH TESTS WIND IN TUNNEL: Guggenheim Graduate Unit Trying Out Planes" Los Angeles Times, 21 Jul. 1929: A1.
Richard C. Tolman and Albert Einstein standing in front of a blackboard at the California Institute of Technology. Reported in "TOLMAN TALKS TO SCIENTISTS: Expanding Universe Theory Subject of Lecture Dr. Einstein Takes Part in Discussion World to Go on Forever, Speaker Declares," Los Angeles Times, 09 Jan. 1932: A2.
Three officials from California Institute of Technology posing with a steam shovel at 1930 groundbreaking ceremonies for dormitories. Reported in "NEWS OF SOUTHERN COUNTIES: GROUND BROKEN FOR CALTECH Million-Dollar Dormitories Begun With Steam Shovel Student Body President at Throttle of Machine More Than 1000 Persons See Unique Ceremonies," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jun. 1930: A8.
Dr. Clark B. Millikan on ladder looking into Caltech wind tunnel while another man observes from below. Reported in "CALTECH TESTS WIND IN TUNNEL: Guggenheim Graduate Unit Trying Out Planes" Los Angeles Times, 21 Jul. 1929: A1.