• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution for the year ended June 30, 1951
  • Contributor: Blanc, Peter [Other]; Bridgman, P.W. [Other]; Clark, Austin H. [Other]; Dushman, Saul [Other]; Houghton, Henry G. [Other]; Infeld, Leopold [Other]; Kainen, Jacob [Other]; Kilby, B.A. [Other]; Laufer, Arthur R. [Other]; Leutscher, Alfred [Other]; Lockard, E.N. [Other]; Oliphant, Mark [Other]; Roberts, Frank Harold Hanna [Other]; Roberts, Walter Orr [Other]; Salter, Robert M. [Other]; Watkins, C. Malcolm [Other]; Wigglesworth, Vincent Brian [Other]; Zapffe, Carl A. [Other]; Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma [Other]
  • Corporation: Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents
  • imprint: Washington, DC, 1952
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  • Published in: United States congressional serial set ; serial set no. 11650-1
    House document / 82nd Congress, 2nd session. House ; no. 277, pt. 1
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (458 p); illustrations, tables
  • Language: English
  • Reproductino series: U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Chester, Vt: NewsBank, inc, 2008
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  • Footnote: An appraisal of cloud seeding as a means of increasing precipitation, by Henry G. Houghton, p. 175
    Appendices, p. 14
    Artificial lighting in America: 1830-1860, by C. Malcolm Watkins, p. 385
    Atomic weapons against cancer, by E.N. Lockard, p. 263
    Enzymes: Machine tools of the cellular factory, by B.A. Kilby, p. 273
    Hormones and the metamorphosis of insects, by V.B. Wigglesworth, p. 313
    Index, p. 441
    List of plates, p. IV
    On Einstein's new theory, by Leopold Infeld, p. 189
    River basin surveys: The first five years of the Inter-agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program, by Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr., p. 351
    Some prospects in the field of electronics, by V.K. Zworykin, p. 235
    Some results in the field of high-pressure physics, by P.W. Bridgman, p. 199
    Stormy weather on the sun, by Walter Orr Roberts, p. 163
    Table of contents, p. III
    The artist and the atom, by Peter Blanc, p. 427
    The carbon-14 method of age determination, by Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr., p. 335
    The development of the halftone screen, by Jacob Kainen, p. 409
    The fauna of America, by Austin H. Clark, p. 287
    The industrial applications of atomic energy, by M.L. Oliphant, p. 223
    The insides of metals, by Carl A. Zapffe, p. 253
    The mechanics of snakes, by Alfred Leutscher, p. 303
    The new chemical elements, by Saul Dushman, p. 245
    Ultrasonics, by Arthur R. Laufer, p. 213
    Utilizing our soil resources for greater production, by Robert M. Salter, p. 319
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