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Title
Light tube experiment, Cal Tech
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1930
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Scientific experiments with a long light tube at the California Institute of Technology are being conducted by famous physicist Albert A. Michelson from the University of Chicago. It appears that the experiments occurred not long before his death in 1931.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00046034
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Science-Physics.; N-005-744.1 4x5
CARL0000051179
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/102063
Subject
Michelson, Albert A.--(Albert Abraham),--1852-1931
California Institute of Technology
Universities and colleges--California--Pasadena
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Light

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