US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Dr. Tileston stands at the front of the classroom with multiple series of tubes set up around him. Photograph appears with the article, "Science Makes Atoms Cavort," Los Angeles Times, 09 Dec 1925: A8. Dr. Tileston lectures for several different audiences. Handwritten on negative: Dr Roland R Tileston Text from negative sleeve: TILESTON, ROLAND DR. POMONA COL. [stamped:] 1925 Text from newspaper caption: What Makes Up the Stars and Myriad Suns Dr. Roland Tileston, head of the department of physics, Pomona College, and the laboratory apparatus used in the lecture. In front of him are "models" of atoms of oxygen, nitrogen and carbon. Behind him on the table are Crookes tubes in which electrons are made to do acrobatic stunts. Above on the wire are Geissler tubes in which electrons announce themselves in colors. In the right-hand corner are models of crystals.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_3783 ark:/21198/zz002cpft9
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Physicists--American--California--Claremont Molecular models Laboratories--California--Claremont Electron tubes Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) Tileston, Roland Ray, (Dr.), 1886-1951
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