Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 USC Libraries Special Collections University of Southern California specol@usc.edu
Description
9 images. Physics professor at University of California Los Angeles, 13 June 1958. Myra Schiller -- 20 years (Junior at University of California Los Angeles) Julius Sumner Miller (professor) of El Camino College, associate research physicist at University of California Los Angeles Demonstrating principle of gyroscopic stabilizer principal of angular momentum Fluorescent light is illuminated without wires. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Sandusky. Date: 1958-06-13. Assignment: Physics prof at UCLA. Special instructions: Monday Monday. All negs show Myra Schiller, 20, junior at UCLA (English major) and Professor Julius Sumner Miller of El Camino College, an Associate Research Physicist at UCLA. D1,2: Myra demonstrates principle of gyroscopic stabilizer. D11, 28, 12, 29, 27: Myra demonstrates principle of angular momentum. D3,4: Fluorescent light is illuminated without wires when held next to Van de Graff Electrostatic Generator capable of building up static charge of 100,000 volts".
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image
Format
9 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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