Features:
A Case Study
of Innovation
by Elting E. Morison
A distinguished historian discusses the introduction of a single technological
change in the United States Navy—and comes to some provocative conclusions
about the process of change
The Ascent of
Mt. Vancouver
by William R. Hainsworth, '18
What it's like to climb the highest un climbed mountain in the North American
continent
The Billion-Volt
Synchrotron
Caltech's new electron accelerator will be the most powerful machine of its
type ever built
Blame it on
Sunspots
by Robert S. Richardson
Campus News:
Geologists on
the Ground
A report on Geology's regimented vacation known as the Annual Spring Field
Trip
The Beaver
by Jim Hendrickson '50