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. Photograph appears with the article, "Student Makes Device For Capturing Sun Rays," Los Angeles Times, 10 May 1936: A4. Viola and Lorena stand behind Dr. Pheley, watching him as he holds a mirror over the heliostat. Under the instruction of Dr. Pheley Los Angeles Junior College student George Huck has created a working model of a heliostat to demonstrate the use of such instruments as the giant Griffith Park Planetarium coelostat. Text from newspaper caption: Capturing sunbeams used to be only a poet's fancy. Yesterday at Los Angeles Junior College they were making the dream a reality. With this heliostat the rays are held stationary by means of rotating mirrors. Instructor D. B. Pheley, its inventor, is shown with Lorena Sellers and Viola von Schneider, co-eds. Text from negative sleeve: 5171 - LtR - D.B. Pheley Lorena Sellers Viola Von Schneider Heliostat 5-1-36 [stamped:] May 10 1936
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14235 ark:/21198/zz002j7sd5
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Heliographs (Apparatus) Mirrors--California Students--American--California--Los Angeles Teachers--California--Los Angeles Inventions Von Schneider, Viola Pheley, Donal B., 1898-1962 Sellers, Lorena Los Angeles Junior College
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