San Francisco / Oklahoma City / Launceston / Tokyo / Amsterdam / Apia / Naples / New Madrid / Potsdam / Zagreb / Sydney / Canberra / Perthshire / Lisbon / Tsingtau / /
Company
Engelhard / Texas Instruments / Western Geophysical / Amerada / Geophysical Service Incorporated / E. Wiechert / Geophysical Research Corporation / Geological Engineering Company / /
Continent
America / Europe / North America / /
Country
Greenland / Japan / Australia / China / Scotland / Germany / Italy / Mexico / New Zealand / Russia / United States / Argentina / /
Event
Natural Disaster / Bankruptcy / Person Travel / /
Facility
Stanford University / Imperial College of Tokyo / National Institute of Standards and Technology / Riverview Observatory / University of Oklahoma / American Institute of Mining / University of Goettingen / University of Pennsylvania / /
IndustryTerm
theoretical solution / photographic device / seismic contractor / seismic energy / oil and gas / energy sources / experimental solution / energy / reflected energy / oil prices / low energy / photographic recording device / extraneous energy / oil / sound-ranging equipment / travel-time curves / inversion algorithm / /
NaturalFeature
Kulpa Valley / Heligoland / Pacific Ocean / Alps / Mount Vesuvius / Gulf Coast / Hartz Mountains / /
Organization
U.S. government / Physics Department / American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers in Los Angeles / Geological Society of America Memoirs / Imperial College of Tokyo / National Institute of Standards and Technology / Department of Geophysics / U.S. Bureau of Standards / Geological Society of America Memoirs Permission / America Memoirs CHAPTER / Geological Society of America Downloaded / General Services Administration / University of Oklahoma / Seismological Society of Japan / the University of Pennsylvania / Institute for Geophysics / Stanford University / University of Goettingen / British army / Geological Society / Physics Department at OU / /
Person
Edward Pigot / Thomas Gray / William P. Haseman / Elmar Rothert / Robert Mallet / James Ewing / Emil Wiechert / Henry Larcon Abbot / Andreas Barth / Joachim Ritter / John Clarence Karcher / Reginald Fessenden / Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz / Henry Salvatori / Sebastian Rost / John Milne / / /
Position
geophysicists / head / author / professor of geophysics in Germany / major seismic contractor / first professor / model / director / Lawyer / /
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