Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate voted to buy 7,000 acres of Indian reservation land for the Yellowtail Dam in the Bighorn River reclamation power project from the Crow Indian Tribe for $5,000,000. although the Federal Bureau of Reclamation had estimated that the land's actual market value is only...
Hawkins and Fred L. Whipple, chairman of the Department of Astronomy, outlined the project before the convention of the American Astronomical Association. They explained that they hope to determine in what ways meteors affect humans and to check the accuracy of some of the current contentions concerning them. One Australian scientist maintains that meteors or meteor dust cause the aurora borealis and torrential rains...
...expected that work on this meteor project will have importance in the International Geophysical Year, the coordinated program of scientific studies which begins next year...
...study will be made by radar astronomy, closely allied to the radio astronomy so prominent in the Observatory's recent work. The distincton between this project and radio astronomy lies in the fact that the radio waves are sent up from the ground first, and not emitted by the subjects--in this case, the meteors...
Before starting the nine-volume project, Sarton wrote a two-volume "Introduction to the History of Science," "The History of Science and the New Humanism," "The Study of the History of Science," and "The Study of the History of Mathematics." These works totalled over 3,000 pages...