Engineering and Science, Volume 43:2, November-December 1979
Editor: Bonner, Jacquelyn
Published in: Engineering and Science, Volume 43, Number 2, 1979
Item Category: Complete Issues
Persistent URL: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:43.2.0
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Table of Contents
Features:
Trapping an Earthquake
by Karen McNally
A Caltech geophysicist describes some of the problems and payoffs — human and scientific — of an earthquake forecast that came true.
A Capital Idea
The colonnades of the first four undergraduate houses on campus have some remarkable capitals. Did the designer have particular people in mind?
Research in Progress
Acid Rain
Battery Power
Magnetic Bubbles
Winchester Jones — How It Was (Part Two)
A chapter in the oral history of Caltech by the dean of admissions emeritus — plus a sample of his fabulous repertoire of anecdotes about Caltech
Editing from Scientist to Informed Layman
by Edward Hutchings Jr.
The recently retired editor of E&S reveals some of the secrets of his success.