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The school was known successively as Throop University, Throop Polytechnic Institute (and Manual Training School) [22] and Throop College of Technology before acquiring its current name in 1920. [ 14 ] [ 23 ] The vocational school was disbanded and the preparatory program was split off to form the independent Polytechnic School in 1907.
Discovery is announced of the Kerguelen Plateau, an Antarctic sunken large island formerly joined to India, from the icebreaker Polarstern at its homeport of Bremerhaven, Germany, after a 19-month research voyage to Antarctica.
Amos Gager Throop (/ ˈ t r uː p / TROOP; 1811–1894) was an American businessman and politician in Chicago, Illinois during the 1840s and 1850s. Most famously he was known for being a staunch abolitionist prior to the Civil War .
James A. B. Scherer (1870–1944) served as the last President of the Throop Polytechnic Institute from 1908 to 1920 prior to its renaming to the California Institute of Technology in 1921. [1] Before being asked by George Ellery Hale to serve as President of Throop, Scherer was a Lutheran minister, one of the founders of the Japan Evangelical ...
Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu gets the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. Japanese band Zard vocalist Izumi Sakai dies of cerebral contusion in Keio University hospital, Shinjuku, Tokyo.
The World Wide Fund for Nature expresses concern over the potential destruction of coral reefs after the 2007 Solomon Islands earthquake, which caused the island of Ranongga in the New Georgia Islands group to rise three meters (10 ft.), extending its entire shoreline by 70 meters on average. (AFP via Yahoo!)
Polytechnic School covers 15 acres and is divided by Cornell Road into two campuses, north (Lower and Middle School) and south (Upper School), and is adjacent to the Caltech campus. Most of the North Campus buildings were designed by Myron Hunt , who also designed the Rose Bowl and The Huntington , and Elmer Gray, who designed the Beverly Hills ...
William R. Sears was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of William and Gertrude Sears. [3] He earned his BS degree from the University of Minnesota in 1934. Following this, he enrolled at Caltech to study under Theodore von Kármán, director of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory (GALCIT).