Acid rain, Carbon dioxide, Climatic changes, Electricity, Environmental sciences, Political planning, Interviews, Oral histories, and Transcripts

In this interview Dick Bratcher discusses topics such as University of Michigan, State of California Water Resources Control Board, Wisconsin Electric Power Company, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), environmental science, public policy, electricity, climate change, Richard Richels, carbon dioxide emissions, Peter Mueller, Chuck Hakkarinen, Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment (MECCA) project, and acid rain.

Acid rain, Carbon dioxide, Climatic changes, Electricity, Environmental sciences, Political planning, Interviews, Oral histories, and Transcripts

In this interview Dick Bratcher discusses topics such as University of Michigan, State of California Water Resources Control Board, Wisconsin Electric Power Company, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), environmental science, public policy, electricity, climate change, Richard Richels, carbon dioxide emissions, Peter Mueller, Chuck Hakkarinen, Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment (MECCA) project, and acid rain.

Acid rain, Carbon dioxide, Climatic changes, Electricity, Environmental sciences, Political planning, Interviews, Oral histories, and Transcripts

In this interview Dick Bratcher discusses topics such as University of Michigan, State of California Water Resources Control Board, Wisconsin Electric Power Company, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), environmental science, public policy, electricity, climate change, Richard Richels, carbon dioxide emissions, Peter Mueller, Chuck Hakkarinen, Model Evaluation Consortium for Climate Assessment (MECCA) project, and acid rain.

Biophysics, Electricity, Ionosphere, Nuclear physics, Physics -- Study and teaching, Proximity fuzes, Radio, Radio astronomy, Seismology, Tesla coils, Van de Graaff generator, World War, 1939-1945 -- War work, Oral histories, Interviews, Sound recordings, and Transcripts

Early youth in Canton, South Dakota; teenage interest in radios and electricity (Ernest O. Lawrence). Origins of physics interest at Augustana Academy, Canton; college years at the University of Minnesota, until 1923; graduate work at Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D. at Hopkins, collaboration with Gregory Breit studying ionosphere with radio waves, 1926; position at Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM); nuclear physics work with Odd Dahl, Lawrence Hafstad, and others using Tesla coils in 1920s, and Van de Graaff generators in 1930s; head of proximity fuse work and first director of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory during World War II; return to DTM; Director, 1946-1966; DTM research during directorship in seismology, biophysics, and radio astronomy.

Biophysics, Electricity, Ionosphere, Nuclear physics, Physics -- Study and teaching, Proximity fuzes, Radio, Radio astronomy, Seismology, Van de Graaff generator, World War, 1939-1945 -- War work, Tesla coils, Oral histories, Interviews, Sound recordings, and Transcripts

Early youth in Canton, South Dakota; teenage interest in radios and electricity (Ernest O. Lawrence). Origins of physics interest at Augustana Academy, Canton; college years at the University of Minnesota, until 1923; graduate work at Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University; Ph. D. at Hopkins, collaboration with Gregory Breit studying ionosphere with radio waves, 1926; position at Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM); nuclear physics work with Odd Dahl, Lawrence Hafstad, and others using Tesla coils in 1920s, and Van de Graaff generators in 1930s; head of proximity fuse work and first director of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory during World War II; return to DTM; Director, 1946-1966; DTM research during directorship in seismology, biophysics, and radio astronomy.

Ice industry, Schools, Midwives, Fire extinction, Electricity, Agriculture -- Societies, etc, Hotels, taverns, etc, Education, Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Merchants, Transportation, Dwellings, Roads, Depressions -- 1929, Farms, Interviews, and Oral histories

Taped interviews with local residents concerning life in Pawling, ca. 1900-1945. Subjects include ice houses, schools, midwifery, fire fighting, arrival of electricity, life as a farmer's wife, housekeeping and domestic life, local industries, the Pawling Grange, the Dutcher House (a hotel), village life and social events, the Depression of the 1930s, transportation, folk remedies, teaching, merchants and businesses, farming, women's work, and roads.

Automobiles, Children, Children -- Books and reading, Electricity, Television, Education, Flight, High schools, Fires, Radio, Toys, Traditional medicine, Women -- Interviews, Automobiles, Children, Children -- Books and reading, Education, Electricity, Fires, Flight, High schools, Manners and customs, Radio, Television, Toys, Traditional medicine, Travel, Women, Interviews, and Oral histories

Interview containing descriptions of life in Abbyville, Kan., and Woods County, Okla.; graduating high school in Lone Wolf, Okla.; childhood chores, books, and toys; walking two miles to school; home remedies; fire in Babbs Switch (Babbs), Okla.; and her first experiences with radio, television, electricity, automobiles, and riding on a airplane.

Biophysics, Electricity, Ionosphere, Nuclear physics, Physics -- Study and teaching, Proximity fuzes, Radio, Radio astronomy, Seismology, Tesla coils, Van de Graaff generator, World War, 1939-1945 -- War work, Oral histories, Interviews, Sound recordings, and Transcripts

Early youth in Canton, South Dakota; teenage interest in radios and electricity (Ernest O. Lawrence). Origins of physics interest at Augustana Academy, Canton; college years at the University of Minnesota, until 1923; graduate work at Princeton University and Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D. at Hopkins, collaboration with Gregory Breit studying ionosphere with radio waves, 1926; position at Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM); nuclear physics work with Odd Dahl, Lawrence Hafstad, and others using Tesla coils in 1920s, and Van de Graaff generators in 1930s; head of proximity fuse work and first director of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory during World War II; return to DTM; Director, 1946-1966; DTM research during directorship in seismology, biophysics, and radio astronomy.

Publishers and publishing -- Interviews, Periodicals -- Publishing, Electricity, Oral histories, and Interviews

Recollections of William Kelly Beard, Sr. and his relationship with James H. McGraw, Sr.; extensive impressions of James H. McGraw, Sr.; manager of ELECTRICAL WORLD, 1935.