Archive for January, 2007

Meteorological Achievements 1929

METEOROLOGY 1929
by CHARLES FITZHUGH TALMAN
Librarian, U. S. Weather Bureau
THE aviator now is getting weather information along the principal commercial flight-waysÂ Â ofÂ the world. As the information is supplied by radio broadcasts, it is available to the entire community, and it is found to have many useful applications altogether outside the domain of aeronautics.
Since July 1, [...]

Anthropological Achievements 1929

ANTHROPOLOGY 1929
by CLARK WISSLER, PH.D.
Curator of Anthropology,
American Museum of Natural History
A REVIEW of anthropology reveals an increase in the number of institutions and endowments supporting the study of prehistoric man and the contemporary less civilized races, accompanied by a corresponding gain in the number of investigators.Â Almost every part of the land surface of the [...]

GEOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENTS 1929

GEOLOGY 1929
by ALFRED C. LANE
Professor of Geology and
Mineralogy, Tufts College
PERHAPS the great achievement of 1929 is the enlistment of more precise physical and chemical methods to help in unraveling the history of the earth and its structure.Â Â Â For instance, by studying its electric conductivity, more conductive strata have been located perhaps thirty miles down.
Again, the [...]

Photographic Achievements 1929

PHOTOGRAPHY 1929
by C. E. KENNETH MEES, D.Sc.
Director, Research Laboratory,
Eastman Kodak Company
AMONG the scientific applications of photography, there should be noted a considerable advance in the photography of the infra-red spectrum. This has been made possible by the application of Neocyanine plates. Such plates have been used for photographing the infra-red end of the solar spectrum [...]

Archaeology Achievements 1929

ARCHEOLOGY 1929
by NEIL M. JUDD
Curator of American Archeology,
United States National Museum
WITHIN the Americas, the most notable achievement unquestionably has been the National Geographic Society’s establishment of a chronology that adds some 1,500 years to history; determines the age of Pueblo Bonito, most famous ruin of the southwestern United States; and dates some forty other villages [...]

Psychology Advancements in 1929

PSYCHOLOGY in 1929
by A. T. POFFENBERGER, PH.D.
Professor of Psychology, Columbia University
THE outstanding event in the psychological world during 1929 was the ninth International Congress of Psychology, held for the first time in America, at Yale University, September 1 to 7. Twenty-one foreign countries were represented by from one to twenty-two psychologists. There was a total [...]

Mining and Metallurgy Achievements 1929

MINING AND METALLURGY 1929
by SCOTT TURNER, E.M.
Director, U.S. Bureau of Mines
ONE interesting development in the mining field in 1929 has been the steady advance in prospecting methods, by which many valuable mineral deposits heretofore unknown have been discovered.
Remarkable increases in efficiency are reported at various mines developing large low-grade ore bodies. This has been achieved [...]

1929 ACHIEVEMENTS IN ASTRONOMY

ASTRONOMY IN 1929
by HEBER D. CURTIS
Director, Allegheny Observatory
NEARLY all the research of our great modern observatories is in the form of vast “continuing programs,” planned to last decades instead of months.
So numerous have been minor but none-the-less valuable accretions to the total of astronomical select any particular one as epoch-making. In one field it may [...]