Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Abstract
Tom Mathews and Dick Read approaching the jack screw of an antenna on the north-south track. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
ID number
10.21.2-38
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Abstract
Tom Mathews, Tiny Gates and Al Munger inspect an antenna jack screw. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
ID number
10.21.2-39
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Abstract
Dick and Dorothy Read standing beside the north-south track. In the background an antenna on the east-west track. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
ID number
10.21.2-40
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Abstract
Al Munger driving the bulldozer - used amongst other things to move the antennas along the tracks. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
ID number
10.21.2-41
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Abstract
An antenna on the north-south track in front of the Observers' Quartes. Sierra Nevada in the background. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
ID number
10.21.2-42
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Abstract
43. The two antennas on the North-South track. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
ID number
10.21.2-43
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Abstract
Dan Harris on the surface of a dish. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
ID number
10.21.2-44
Title
Edith M. Wallace
Abstract
Edith M. Wallace, in biology lab at Columbia. Close up from photo AHS10.1-5
ID number
AHS10.1-6
Title
Caricature of Charles Darwin by Frederick Waddy.
Abstract
Published in the illustrated journal, Once A Week. In 19th century Victorian England, the average citizen gained much of his/her knowledge from the pages of newspapers and illustrated magazines of the day. One such journal was Once A Week, where from 1868 to 1873 a series of contemporary 'Caricature Portraits of Eminent Public Men' were featured-all drawn by Frederick Waddy, and each subject accompanied by a short biography. Charles Darwin would become one such subject of Waddy's pen after the 1871 publication of Darwin's Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. By exaggerating Darwin's prominent features-his long beard, heavyset eyebrows, and large forehead-Waddy, as well as other graphic artists of the day, created an ape-like image of Darwin. Such images of Darwin would very quickly come to represent the theory of evolution itself-or 'Darwinism' in popular terms, a word coined by Thomas Henry Huxley, who reviewed Darwin's 1859 On the Origin of Species. Thanks to this and other Darwin caricatures, his persona as well as his publications became very popular, while other prominent English evolutionists such as Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Herbert Spencer never attained such notoriety.
ID number
AHS9.1-34
Title
John Todd and Olga Taussky-Todd in their Caltech office.
ID number
JOT-1
Title
Curved wind tunnel for studying air turbulence
Abstract
This wind tunnel was designed and built by Dr. Frank Watendorf. Photo by World Wide Photos.
ID number
10.11-3
Title
Bust of Pithecanthropus
Abstract
From photo album of A. H. Sturtevant.
ID number
AHS10.1-7
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Abstract
Guido Munch and Radhakrishnan in the snow at Mammoth. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
ID number
10.21.2-45
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Abstract
'Don't talk to me before I have my coffee' - Radhakrishnan facing the morning at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
ID number
10.21.2-46
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Abstract
Radhakrishnan and Per Maltby at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
ID number
10.21.2-47
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Abstract
Radhakrishnan in his Pasadena apartment. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
ID number
10.21.2-48
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Abstract
Radhakrishnan in his Pasadena apartment. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
ID number
10.21.2-49
Title
Grote Reben at Owen Valley Radio Observatory
Abstract
Radio astronomy.
ID number
OVRO1.1-8
Title
Ian Campbell
Abstract
Campbell, petrologist, served as executive officer for the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences for several years in the 1940s and 1950s, in addition to being Acting Chairman in 1951-1952. Campbell left Caltech in 1959 to become California 's State Geologist.
ID number
10.41-119
Title
Title page of Federico Commandino's Italian translation of Euclid's Elements
Abstract
Commandino, described as the most competent mathematician among all Renaissance translators, produced his Italian text from Greek editions. Italian was the first vernacular language into which Euclid was translated.
