1. CALIFORNIA: A HISTORY O Brave New World!

3. California took the lead in vacuum tube technology, making radio and television possible.

4. In the 1930’s Californians took the lead in atom smashing.

5. In biotechnology California led the nation.

6. On April 4, 1853, seven San Francisco men established the California Academy of Sciences.

7. In 1869, the University of California opened and showed interest in mining, geology, agriculture, and mechanical engineering.

8. In August of 1883, John and James Montgomery made the first recorded heavier-than-air flight in human history in California.

10. In 1879 the first astronomical observatory on the West Coast was built atop a hill in San Francisco.

11. On the evening of August 19, 1937, the first klystron tube was put into operation, which turned out to be a key component in the success of radar.

12. Two Stanford graduates by the names of David Packard and William Hewlett designed and built an audio oscillator that would generate electric signals within the frequency of human hearing.

13. By 1931, UC Berkeley physics professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented and developed a cyclotron that generated high-energy beams of nuclear particles that made possible the exploration of the atomic nucleus. In 1939 Lawrence was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in physics.