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Title: Alexander Goetz shown with apparatus for manufacturing liquid helium
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1932
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Long telescope used to photograph eclipse of the sun
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1934-03-31
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: Study of elipse on the sun was done by Josef J. Johnson on the islet of Losap. The purpose was to study the polarization of light in the corona.

Title: A. H. McAllister and Alexander Goetz
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1932
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: Instruments for tabulating cold and pressure. Physics.

Title: Charles C. Lauritsen and Robert A. Millikan stand atop the million volt x-ray tube
Format: photograph: negative
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: The tube was developed and built at Caltech by Lauritsen and colleagues in 1928. In 1931 Millikan persuaded the Detroit cornflake magnate W. K. Kellogg to finance a new lab to house the research. Physics.

Title: John D. Strong & Enrique Gaviola looking into the freshly aluminized 100″ mirror
Format: photograph: print
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: Photo was taken on the floor of the Hooker telescope dome, Mt. Wilson Observatory.

Title: John D. Strong & Enrique Gaviola looking into the freshly aluminized 100″ mirror
Format: photograph: print
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: Photo was taken on the floor of the Hooker telescope dome, Mt. Wilson Observatory.

Title: Preliminary model of 200″ telescope
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1936-02-20
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: John Anderson and Marcus H. Brown
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1934-05
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: Marcus Brown was in charge of grinding the 200-inch mirror for Palmoar.

Title: John Blackburn holding the innter electrode of the million volt x-ray tube
Format: photograph: print
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Construction of 200″ telescope
Format: photograph: print
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: A. Soltan looking into a paraffin-lined Lauritsen electroscope
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1933
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Irving Krick and W.C. Rockefeller inspecting chart
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1935
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: Krick and Rockefeller inspecting an airline weather chart.

Title: Curved wind tunnel for studying air turbulence
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1935-02
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: This wind tunnel was designed and built by Dr. Frank Watendorf.

Title: Construction of 200″ telescope
Format: photograph: print
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: Walter Adams, Edwin Hubble and Sir James Jeans at Mt. Wilson
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1931-04
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: 1 MV double-porcelain accelerator tube in the high volts lab
Format: photograph: print
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: H. R. Crane is in the doorway. Engineering and Applied Science.

Title: Water column structure necessary as an adjunct in operating x-ray tube
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1932-02
Series: Academic Divisions

Title: S. S. West with mass spectrograph
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1934-02
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: Apparatus was invented by William R. Smythe. Physics.

Title: Preparing to grind the five-ton disc
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1934-04-23
Series: Academic Divisions

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