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Order Number	00057386
Title	New earthquake recorder
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 528.
Date	1960
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	New type of earthquake recorder being adjusted by Wilfred Iwan, a post-graduate engineering student at the California Institute of Technology. The instrument is bolted to the basement floor of a building on the Caltech campus and is one of fifty being installed in the Los Angeles area to measure ground shaking during earthquakes. Photo dated: July 23, 1960.
Subject	Earthquakes. Earth movements. Seismic waves. Seismometers. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection