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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Communication Achievements of 1929

COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENTS 1929 by FRANK B. JEWETT, Ph. D. President, Bell Telephone Laboratories Source: Popular Science Monthly – January 1930 IMPROVEMENTS in apparatus, circuits, and methods continue to extend the limits of communication and to im-prove its speed, quality, and depend-ability. Illustrative of this is the proposed transatlantic telephone cable, the main link of which [...]

Geography Achievements in 1929

GEOGRAPHY ADVANCEMENTS 1929 by WILLIAM BOWIE Chief, Division of Geodesy, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Source: POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY – January 1930 EXPLORATIONS have been in progress or initiated during the year along a number of different lines. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd has been in the Antarctic, exploring the edges of the ice fields [...]

Radio Advancements in 1929

RADIO ADVANCES 1929 by JOHN V. L. HOGAN Radio Engineer and Inventor THE growth of radio during 1929 has been not only in the improvement of technical processes and apparatus, but also in the organization and extension of its services and in the adaptation of radio principles to work in various other fields. Public contact [...]