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Predigt über Jerem. I.6.7.8. gehalten in der Kirche bey St. Leonhard von D. Kraus beym Antritte seines Amtes ... 1809
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Interview of John Daniel Kraus by Robert W. Wagner
No full textGabe Skitek: graduate student assistant to Kraus who assisted in developing a radio telescope (p. 2)
-- Leo Goldberg: Chair of the Astronomy Dept. at University of Michigan (p. 4)
-- Prof. E. E. Dreese: Chairman of Electrical Engineering (p. 5)
-- Gordon Carson: Dean of Engineering (p. 5)
-- Myra Gearhart: graduate student, discoverer of most distant object then known in universe (p. 6)
-- Bob Dixon: Associate Director, Big Ear (p. 7)
-- Alan Hyneke: Prof. of Astronomy, and authority on extra-terrestrial research (p. 8)
-- Marion Poole: researcher on extra-terrestrial subjects (p. 9)
-- Sir Arthur Clarke: distinguished author of science fiction (pp. 9-11)
-- Victor Hess: Nobel prize winning researcher on cosmic rays (pp. 12-15)
-- Arnold Penzias & Robert Wilson: collaborators, co-discoverers of ultra-low temperatures (p. 17)
-- Anthony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell: discoverers of pulsars (p. 17)Dr. John Kraus was Professor of Electrical Engineering and Astronomy. He arrived in 1946 and immediately made significant contributions. Working in his basement he invented the helical antenna, which soon became in use worldwide, and especially on satellites in space and the space station. He was able to build an array of 96 of these antennae into a single unit that formed a radio telescope, one of the first ever built. The radio telescope was directed from a small building on a corner of the University Farms. The building was built by Kraus with his own hands, assisted by a graduate student, Gabe Skitek, and paid for by donated materials and a small grant from the College of Engineering. Unfortunately there was some serious fallout when the university central administration discovered that a building had been built on University property without their knowledge or permission. But the program continued despite an almost total lack of interest or cooperation from the Astronomy Department. “We were just a lot of black boxes that they did not understand.” He also taught for some years a course in radio astronomy. Several other universities, including the Universities of Michigan and Illinois, developed strong programs in radio astronomy.
The original 96-helix array was the forerunner to a much, much larger radio telescope, which was dubbed the “Big Ear.” Again the construction was done by Dr. Kraus and his students, and at very low cost to the University. This telescope discovered some of the most distant objects in the universe, although it was later demolished to make a golf course. It served as the model, however, for one in France four times as large as “Big Ear,” and which functions to this day. Architecturally the “Big Ear” was considered a “masterpiece.” The College of Engineering, especially Prof. E.E. Dreese, Chairman of Electrical Engineering, and Dean Gordon Carson, offered strong support.
One key benefit of the “Big Ear” was that it was a “fantastic teaching tool.” Students and others who used the telescope surveyed the sky and determined where radio emissions were coming from, although the signals did not come from any object known at the time. Myra Gearhart, a graduate student, found that some of these radio sources corresponded to an extremely faint optical object. It was numbered OH471. Astronomers at Stewart University obtained a spectrum of OH471, discovered by Gearhart, and proved it was the most distant known object in the universe. It was a page one story in the New York Times. Other discoveries followed from this student-built telescope. Preeminent among these was discovery of the so-called “WOW” signal, which moved with the stars and might have been from an extra-terrestrial intelligent civilization. No one can say for sure.
The search for extra-terrestrials continues today at other observatories notably at the SETI Institute in California. At Ohio State the leading investigators were Alan Hyneke and Marion Poole. Al Garrett was an administrator who was especially helpful. In time the reputation of the “Big Ear” was worldwide. Sir Arthur Clarke, the distinguished writer of science fiction, credits Dr. Kraus and his work on “Big Ear,” for some ideas used in his novels. Kraus published a book appropriately called The Big Ear. It was translated into Japanese and Chinese and other languages. Another successful book by Kraus was Our Cosmic Universe. The transcript of the oral interview includes a three-page quotation from this book which deals with the discovery of cosmic rays, and, in particular, with the work of the twelve-story tall German research balloon, the Boehmen, which lifted Dr. Victor Hess and other scientists some 5,350 meters high into the edges of the atmosphere. Thus it was proved that the higher one soared the stronger the radiation from above. This was the discovery of cosmic rays, which continually bombard the earth. Dr. Victor Hess won the Nobel Prize for the researches he conducted using the balloon. Dr. Kraus includes the story of this scientific breakthrough in Our Cosmic Universe.
Dr. Kraus closes his interview with the observation that so much more remains to be done in understanding the universe. “We know less about the universe than Columbus knew about America in 1492.” Earth is, after all, just a tiny little planet in a solar system in a huge galaxy. And there are billions of galaxies. “We are such an imperceptible speck that it’s awesome, it’s frightening, it’s overwhelming.” One small part of the research effort was the voyages of Voyager I and II which are both now beyond the outer limits of the solar system. They have provided much valuable data, but also their voyages were a symbolic thing to do since they sought to encapsulate for some distant, unknown intelligence what our civilization is like on Earth. Certainly current researchers and those who follow will fill in more and more details about the realms of space, and the possible existence of extra-terrestrial beings. Future discoveries may well be serendipitous, or accidental discoveries found while looking for something entirely different. Karl Jansky built an antenna to study radiation from thunderstorms and he discovered radio emission from our galaxy. Arnold Penzias and Robert Wilson sought to find the lowest level of radio emission from the sky, but in so doing found a minimum temperature of about three degrees Kelvin, which is the temperature of the Big Bang. Anthony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell wanted to study fluctuations in radio emissions from radio sources, and discovered a previously unknown object, the pulsars. They were all looking for something else when they made their most important discoveries.
It is clear that Dr. John Kraus in his 57 years at Ohio State made numerous important contributions, including teaching electrical engineering and astronomy courses, publishing over 100 articles and 9 books, and inventing new types of antennas that are in use world-wide and in space.
Leading Themes
Introduction of radio telescopes & radio astronomy to Ohio State
Construction and demolition of “Big Ear” radio telescope at OSU
Discovery of cosmic rays, and most distant objects known in space
Discovery of the “WOW” signal that is possibly of extra-terrestrial origin
Other key discoveries made in space researc
Rede, gehalten bey der Hinrichtung eines Strassenräubers, den 8ten Jenner 1791
No full textvon Daniel Kraus, Comm. Diac. ; Auf vielfältiges Begehren dem Druck überlassenVerfasser = Daniel Kraus (1753-1814), Lehrer, Theologe u. Schriftsteller?Enthält Buchschmuc
Zwey Predigten gehalten in der Pfarr-Kirche zu St. Leonhard in Basel
No full text> erstere Sonntags den 3. Juny 1810. über Hebräer XIII. 8 von Daniel Kraus > zweyte Sonntags den17. Juny über Apostel-Geschichte IX. 31 von Hieronymus Falkeise
Jacques Bouveresse, Satire & prophétie. Les voix de Karl Kraus, (Banc d’essais) Marseille, Agone, 2007
No full textFrey Daniel. Jacques Bouveresse, Satire & prophétie. Les voix de Karl Kraus, (Banc d’essais) Marseille, Agone, 2007. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 89e année n°1, Janvier-Mars 2009. pp. 114-115
The Kraus project : o romance de Jonathan Franzen com Karl Kraus
No full textOrientador: Prof. Dr. Marcelo Paiva de SouzaDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras. Defesa : Curitiba, 30/08/2017Inclui referências: p.173-178Área de concentração: Estudos literáriosResumo: O presente trabalho se propõe a analisar o livro The Kraus project, composto por textos do satirista e jornalista austríaco Karl Kraus, mas assinado pelo romancista norte-americano Jonathan Franzen. A princípio visto como uma empreitada tradutória, logo se percebe que conceitos da teoria de tradução não são suficientes para explorar a obra, que apresenta muitos elementos do gênero romance. Partindo de uma apresentação de Karl Kraus e de Jonathan Franzen e a recepção crítica de suas obras, a dissertação passa à análise de The Kraus project como uma singular empreitada tradutória, com abundância de comentários apresentados em notas de rodapé do próprio Franzen, do germanista americano Paul Reitter e do escritor austríaco Daniel Kehlmann. Há, por fim, a qualificação do livro como uma obra romanesca e comentários sobre sua recente recepção. Palavras-chave: Jonathan Franzen; Karl Kraus; The Kraus project.Abstract: The present work aims to analyze the book The Kraus Project, composed of texts from the Austrian satirist and journalist Karl Kraus, but signed by the American novelist Jonathan Franzen. At first seen as a translation work, one soon realizes that concepts of translation theory are not enough to explore the book, which presents many elements of the novel genre. Starting with a presentation by Karl Kraus and Jonathan Franzen and the critical reception of his works, the study turns to the analysis of The Kraus project as a peculiar translation undertaking, with plenty of comments presented in footnotes by Franzen himself, the American Germanist Paul Reitter and the Austrian best-selling writer Daniel Kehlmann. There is, finally, the characterization of this book as a romanticized self-fiction and a brief commentary on its recent reception. Keywords: Jonathan Franzen; Karl Kraus; The Kraus Project
Report on Meteorological Research March 1, 1935 (m-1)
No full textThe object of the report was to elucidate in detail the various features of the research program in meteorology being carried on at the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio. Mr. L. J. Fangman, of the U.S. Weather Bureau, was collaborating with the author in carrying out work such as a study of autographic records of the various meteorological elements during frontal passages with a view to the possible prediction of the intensity of the accompanying disturbance as it may affect the operation of aircraft and a study of atmospheric gustiness with a view to finding the dependence between frequency end amplitude of velocity fluctuations and the vertical temperature and velocity gradients
Alles sogar öffentliches Unglück und allgemeines Leiden bieten dem Fleisse des Jünglings Aufmunterung dar : Ein Schulgespräch gehalten aus Anlaß der alljährlichen Herbstbeförderung der Schüler auf Burg. im Jahre 1799
No full textvon A. J. Heinrich Segiser. B. Lukas Wenk. C. Daniel Kraus. D. Daniel Jselin. E. J. Jakob Faesch. F. Johannes StückelbergerAm Schluss ein unbedrucktes BlattBei der Identifikation von Daniel Iselin und Johann Jakob Faesch handelt es sich um Vermutunge
(Fourth) Report on Meteorological Activities at the DGAI (8-1-36)(Weather Bureau Copy)
No full textThis report is on the investigations of frontal phenomena at the Daniel Guggenheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio from January 1, 1935 through August 1, 1936. The investigation was carried out with the cooperation of the U.S. Bureau of Aeronautics, the U.S. Weather Bureau, the California Institute of Technology, and the Guggenheim Airship Institute. Mr. R.C. Robinson of the Weather Bureau cooperated with the author in carrying out the investigation. The object of the investigation was to determine the intensity of the atmospheric disturbances (i.e. rapidity of wind shift and gustiness) accompanying the passage of cold fronts, along with a study of the characteristics of the air masses involved and other features which might affect the intensity of the disturbance. The report treated thirty cold fronts which passed the station during 1935 to 1936
Archives and Images as Repositories of Time, Language, and Forms from the Past: A Conversation with Daniel Eisenberg
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