Engineering and Science, Volume 44:4, April 1981

Engineering and Science, Volume 44:4, April 1981. [Journal Issue] https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:44.4.0

[img]
Preview
PDF
See Usage Policy.

6MB
[img] HTML
See Usage Policy.

2kB

Use this Persistent URL to link to this item: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:44.4.0


Table of Contents

In This Issue

Is California "Overdue" for a Great Earthquake?
by Kerry Sieh
If we can expect another great earthquake in California, when will it happen - in 1000 days or 1000 years?

What It Means to be Dammed: The Anthropology of Large-Scale Development Projects in the Tropics and Subtropics.
by Thayer Scudder
A Caltech anthropologist discusses a four-stage development framework that may explain the relative success or failure of new lands settlement projects

Women and Marriage in Medieval Society
by Eleanor Searle
A historian points out that the feudal world was a face-to-face society in which women participated in important activities and were expected to submit to social discipline like their men.

The Fairchild Scholars Program
A program to promote scholarship through interaction is alive and well at Caltech. But how does it work?

The Triple Alliance: Millikan, Guggenheim, and von Karman
by Harold McGee
A chapter from a book by a Caltech alumnus on the biology and chemistry of everyday food materials and culinary techniques.

Research in Progress
Pre-Life Amendment: Studies of other solar system atmospheres generate new theories about how life may have begun on Earth.

Going Against the Grain: Engineering research seeks to understand how granular materials flow.

The Great Solar Blackout of 1980
by Peter Dewees
A Calteeh alumnus recounts an adventure in India.

Item Type:Journal Issue
Record Number:CaltechES:44.4.0
Persistent URL:https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:44.4.0
Usage Policy:You are granted permission for individual, educational, research and non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display and performance of this work in any format.
Item Category:All Records > Complete Issues
ID Code:583
Deposited By:INVALID USER
Deposited On:25 Sep 2009 02:25
Last Modified:03 Oct 2019 22:52

Repository Staff Only: item control page