Engineering and Science, Volume 19:1, October 1955

Editor: Hutchings, Jr., Edward

Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 19, Number 1, 1955

Item Category: Complete Issues

Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:19.1.0

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Table of Contents

In This Issue

Books

Geology of Southern California edited by Richard H. Jahns

Features:

A Map of the Universe

After seven years of hard work, a new milestone in astronomical history has

been reached with the publication of this new chart of the skies.

A New Source of Uranium

Caltech investigators find a way to extract the atomic energy fuels, uranium

and thorium, from the ordinary granites of the earth's crust.

Looking Ahead for Water

Can Southern California keep growing indefinitely without fear of water shortage?

Here's what engineers and scientists are doing to meet the inevitable problem.

by Jack McKee

What's New About New Cars

by Peter Kyropoulos

Family Album

An informal report on some of the biology students whose graduate work has been

financed by the Arthur McCallum Fellowship and Scholarship program.

How Do You Like Your Job?

A reminder that the Caltech Alumni Placement service can help you do something

about it.

by Donald S. Clark

Campus News:

The Summer at Caltech

Freshman Camp, 1955

A pictorial record

Personals

Alumni Fund