Word: caltech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engineering schools are often criticized for being behind the scientific times; their enrollments have stagnated. This week the Ford Foundation, which overlooked the field up to now, marched in with a massive $19.05 million gift to four institutes of technology (Caltech, Carnegie, Case, M.I.T.) and six universities (U.C.L.A., Michigan, Illinois, Purdue, Stanford, Wisconsin). The goal: a sharp boost for pace setters, and so for all U.S. engineering schools...
...rocket (the WAC Corporal in 1945), developed the first successful solid-fuel propellant, devised and built the guidance systems that have guided satellites into space, and the instruments that telemeter back what they find. Practically every U.S. missile program has called for its advice. Today it is run by Caltech as the prime deep-space laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with 2,700 employees working in more than no buildings...
Like other famed rocket labs, e.g., Germany's Peenemünde, J.P.L. was founded by eager amateurs. In the middle 1930s, Aerodynamicist Theodore von Karman encouraged a group of Caltech students to design high-altitude sounding rockets. For a while they had no money except what they could spare from their own pockets, but in 1937 a meteorology student named Weld Arnold offered to raise $1,000. Says Dr. Frank J. Malina, one of the original rocketeers: "Arnold was a very quiet person who came and went in a mysterious way. He told me he lived in Burbank...
...Sciences came across with $10,000 to develop rockets for helping airplanes get off the ground. In 1941 the first airplane took off with a J.P.L.-developed JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off) rocket. During World War II, J.P.L. was reorganized as a laboratory run for the Army by Caltech...
This high praise from famed Caltech was no polite gesture. M.I.T. began in 1861 as a land-grant professional school for engineers. When Seattle-born "J" Stratton took his electrical engineering degree there in 1923, its aims were still basically the same. Last year, under Acting President Stratton-who stepped up from chancellor when President James R. Killian Jr. became President Eisenhower's science adviser-M.I.T. spent an estimated $22 million for operating costs, another $56 million for sponsored research projects. It produces some of the country's ablest pure physicists; it has grown from the nation...