Word: caltech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When engineers let their imaginations go-in a properly professional manner-they are apt to think about rockets, whose limit is above the sky. Last week a Manhattan meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers heard Professor Hsue-shen Tsien, Chinese-born rocket expert from Caltech, on the prospects in rocketeering. Most of Dr. Tsien's paper was technical, e.g., how to keep the walls of combustion chambers from melting. But his conclusion was clear and startling: present-day technology is capable of building a transcontinental rocket ship...
Such great telescopes as the 200-incher on Mt. Palomar see only tiny patches of sky. They need a more wide-eyed instrument to tell them where to look. Last week CalTech and the National Geographic Society announced a joint project to map the whole sky in search of interesting objects for big telescopes to study in detail. The society will supply the funds; CalTech, which runs Palomar Observatory, will supply the Schmidt telescope to do the mapping...
...Fritz Zwicky, astronomer, physicist and rocket expert of Caltech, has developed such an engine for the U.S. Navy, which presumably hopes to use it in torpedoes or in anti-submarine devices. The Navy is so excited about it that it won't allow Swiss-born Astronomer Zwicky to open his mouth on the subject. It has also warned Aerojet Engineering Corp. of Azusa, Calif., which is working on the device, to keep it quiet...
...current Engineering and Science Monthly, a Caltech flavor chemist, Hoiland-born Dr. Arie J. Haagen-Smit, tells how he vacuum-distilled 6,000 pounds of pineapples and ended up with a few grams of powerful pineapple essence. He took the essence apart bit by bit, identifying microscopic amounts of flavor-giving compounds. Then he mixed a cocktail of the chemicals he had spotted. The result was a "satisfactory reproduction" of fresh pineapple smell...
...wealthy California citrus grower and real estate man, Pitzer graduated with top honors from CalTech, did important war work whose nature is still a secret, and became an instructor in chemistry at the University of California when only 23. As head of AEC research, the bright geometry student will have to solve problems that no teacher has ever figured...