Word: seismographs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Centered around Augusta and Portland, about 165 miles from Boston, yesterday's tremors came at 9.33.46 p.m., according to the University's Harvard, Massachusetts, seismograph, and lasted two minutes. No serious damage was reported...
Boston College's seismograph at Weston reported a "fairly strong" earthquake at 9:34 p.m., lasting seven minutes, and centered 155 miles north of Boston. It is not yet known why the Harvard and Weston reports differ on the duration, location, and degree...
Working in an abandoned garage, Leet has developed a new labor-saving seismograph, which frees geologists from darkrooms and sub-cellar laboratories. Old seismographs recorded on photographic plates; the new one relays earth tremors to a pen-and-paper graph on Leet's desk...
Next year, Mather will give only the second half of Geology 1; Geology 1a is scheduled for L. Don Leet, who also directs the University's Seismograph Station. Even alone, Mather's colorful lectures would make the elementary course in the department worthwhile...
...Pacific Northwest's earthquake which killed eight and hospitalized more than 60 on Wednesday, occurred in an entirely new area for quakes, L. Don Leet '29, director of the University Seismograph Station, said yesterday...