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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bart J. Bok, Associate Professor of Astronomy and tutor; and John Paraskevopules, Associate Professor of Astronomy...
Under the direction of Professor Charles F. Brooks '12, a staff varying from three to twelve men has been doing all sorts of experiments, placing particular emphasis on radio and electrical work. One of their most striking activities has been the charting out of routes and assembling meteorological statistics for future trans-Atlantic flights...
...constantly check the weather conditions and send out radio signals to a receiving set on the top of the Observatory tower. When received on the tower, the signals are transmitted up on graphs, so that a permanent written record is available for government and research stations. The only thing Professor Brooks has to do is to see that the sending apparatus is supplied with fresh batteries...
...result of more than 50 years of careful work, Blue Hill has weather records, which are, in the opinion of Professor Brooks, the most detailed in the United States. These include not only the open-scale instrumental charts and the three-times-a-day check readings of the instruments, but also a comprehensive record of the weather: the visibility, the precipitation and the cloud types and motions...
Witness Hansen. Harvard Professor Alvin H. Hansen, fully equipped with charts, tables, a schoolroom pointer and a green eyeshade, delivered the first lecture: From 1923 to 1929, the average yearly national income was $77 billions, was maintained by the average annual investment of $18.3 billions in new plant and equipment. In 1930-36 annual income averaged only $53 billions (it is now around $65 billions) and only $8.6 billions were invested in new capital goods. Professor Hansen wasted no time over economists' chicken & egg dilemma whether a big national income begets big investments in new capital or vice versa...