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The Boat That Almost Was - by Francis H In This Issue vice chancellor at UC Santa found ESL, Inc., and worked Cruz. He finally returned to with Sylvania/GTE. Caltech in 1969 as chairman of An article adapted from his the Division of Engineering and address begins on page 14. Infor­ Applied Science. Clauser mation about the 1987 Research became professor emeritus in Directors Conference can be 1980. found on page 32. The computer graphics of Clauser's ideas on the cover and Jet Start in the article were created by On October 31, 1936, near the Bob Bolender, a first-year grad future site of the Jet Propulsion student in mechanical engineer­ Laboratory, the jet age was born. ing. He programmed the designs On that date, just 50 years ago, in Caltech's Engineering Design Caltech graduate student Frank Research Laboratory, which is J. Malina and his cohorts con­ under the direction of Erik ducted the first test-firing of a Antonsson, assistant professor of liquid-fueled rocket motor. mechanical engineering, who Malina went took the pictures. 011 to co-found Hot Yachts JPL with On the cover - Computer Capital Ideas Theodore von graphics compare a conventional At last year's Research Directors Karman. In 12-meter yacht (top left), such as Conference, sponsored by 1946 he left those currently competing for Caltech's Industrial Associates, Caltech for a the America's Cup in Australia, William J. Perry delivered an job with with three innovative alterna­ enthusiastically received keynote UNESCO in tives to the yacht's heavy keel, address on "Entrepreneurship Europe. In his later years he set­ which normally provides upright and Advanced tled in Paris and devoted most stability. In his article, "The Technology." of his time to art - he was a Boat That Almost Was," which Perry, who pioneer in the kinetic art move­ begins on page 2, Francis earned his MS ment and the founder of Clauser explains why solutions from Stanford Leonardo, an influential art jour­ such as a broad-beamed hull and PhD from nal. Malina died in 1981. (top right), pontoons on out­ Penn State "The Rocket Pioneers," riggers (lower left), or under­ (1957), is a which begins on page 8, is water ailerons (lower right) could former Under­ adapted from an article Malina make an America's Cup yacht secretary of Defense for Research wrote for E&S in 1968, with the go faster. and Engineering and is currently addition of some material from Clauser, the Clark Blanchard president of H&Q Technology the oral history he gave to the Millikan Professor of Engineer­ Partners, Inc., in Menlo Park, Caltech Archives. (A separate ing, Emeritus, readily admits California. Before entering article on the Archives can be that he's not a naval architect. government service he helped found on page 19.) But as a participant in the aeronautics revolution in the 1930s, he has retained an Paul Winter - President of the Alumni Association interest in applying scientific Theodore Hurwitz - Vice President for Institute Relations solutions to problems previously Robert O'Rourke - Director of Public Relations left to intuition. His reputation reached the sailing world, and he STAFF: Editor - Jane Dietrich was recruited by the Eagle syndi­ Writer - Robert Finn cate to be chief scientist in the Production Artist - Barbara Wirick Newport Harbor Yacht Club's Business Manager - Lena L6nnberg-Hickling effort to win the America's Cup. Photographer - Robert Paz Clauser earned all his degrees from Caltech, PICTURE CREDITS: Cover, 6, 7, 27 - Bob Bolender/Erik Antonsson; 2 his PhD in - Bob Thomas & Associates; 3 - Jane's All the World's Aircraft; 26- 1937 under Dan Nerney/Dot; 27,28 - Francis Clauser; Inside Front Cover - Bob Theodore von Adler; 9, 13.,- Caltech Archives; II, 12 - JPL; 16 -.United Feature Syn­ Karman. dicate, Inc.; 23 - Giuseppe Attardi; 19,22, back cover - Bob Paz After spending the war years Enl'ineering & Science (ISSN 0013-7812) is published five times a year, September, at Douglas November, January, March, and May, at the California Institute of Technology, 120 I Aircraft Com­ East California Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125. Annual Subscription $7.50 domestic, $20.00 foreign air mail, single copies, $ 1.50. Third class postagepaid at pany, he established the aeronau­ Pasadena, California. All rights reserved. Reproduction of material contained herein tics department at the Johns forbidden without authorization. © 1986 Alumni Association California Institute of Hopkins University in 1946. He Technology. Published by the California Institute of Technology and the Alumni remained there until 1965, when Association. Telephone: 818-356-3630. ' he took the post of academic Postmaster: Send change of address to Caltech, 1-71, Pasadena, CA ? 1125. ENGNE~~~~ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NOVEMBER 1986 VOLUME L, NUMBER 2 The Boat That Almost Was - by Francis H. Clauser Page 2 An aeronautics expert brings science to sailing in the America's Cup race. The Rocket Pioneers - by Frank J. Malina Page 8 An eyewitness account of the birth of the rocket age in the Arroyo Seco 50 years ago. Entrepreneurship in Advanced Technology - by William J. Perry Page 14 An industrialist expresses optimism about the sources of leadership and financing in the continuing computer revolution. The Past Recaptured Page 19 Caltech's Archives, established 18 years ago, has become almost too successful in preserving the Institute's history. Departments Research in Progress Page 23 Smog - in Bags and Balances One Genome, Fully Deciphered The Boat That Almost Was by Francis H. Clauser NTH E LATE SUMMER OF 1984 Chuck Newton yacht design had reached a pinnacle of perfec­ ! approached me at lunch in the Athenaeum tion in this country. When the Australians and asked if I would be willing to meet a won with their winged keel, the question man who wanted to talk to me about the naturally arose in my mind: Is the design of America's Cup. That man turned out to be these yachts as advanced as I had been led to George Tooby, BS '35 - almost a classmate believe? The Australian keel wasn't that radi­ of mine - who proposed that I sign on with cal. If this was really supposed to be the state the Newport Harbor Yacht Club to bring of high technology in yacht design, I thought aeronautical science into the design of its it might be interesting to see how it looked America's Cup challenger. from an insider's point of view. I had never designed boats before, but my So I began to study the various America's interest had already been piqued by the 1983 Cup contenders over the years, particularly America's Cup race of 12-meter yachts. the 12-meter yachts that had been racing Above: Eagle, cllrrellffy com· Before that race a number of my sailor since the competition was resumed in 1958 peling among Ihe America 's friends had assured me that the United States following the hiatus of World War II. I was CliP challengers ill {he wafers was sure to win the cup again, as it had con­ immediately struck by a parallel with my off Perth. was buill by rhe Newport Harbor YacJu Club sistently for the past 132 years. These friends early experience in aeronautics. In the 1920s as their conventional12-meter said that we had the finest crews in the world airplanes were designed mostly by intuition. yachl. and that furthermore, the art of 12-meter When scientific knowledge was applied to air- 2 ENGINEERI NG & SC IENCE I NOVEMBER 1986 plane design in the 1930s, earlier intuition The Fokker Trimotor 10- frequently turned out to have been grossly passenger transport (top) was wrong. For example, pilots often complained typical of the intuitive designs of the 1920s. The Douglas that the early airplanes had problems with Globemaster (bottom) was stability and control. Science in the 1930s designed during World War showed that the tail surfaces (elevators and II. It typifies the changes rudders) had been much too small. brought about by the revolu­ As I looked at the America's Cup yachts, tion in aeronautical science during the 30s and 40s. The my immediate reaction was that they must author designed the wing and have had stability and control problems with tail sections on this airplane, their very small rudders located in the wake and he holds the patents on of both the hull and the keel. And it turned the ailerons and flaps. out that indeed a previous America's Cup skipper, Bill Ficker of Intrepid in 1970, claimed that "the present breed of 12 meters is very difficult to steer and keep 'in the groove.' Intrepid's biggest difficulties were experienced when tacking in light weather. It was not easy at all to get her moving again on the wind and to regain the speed of the previ­ ous tack." Other helmsmen said the yachts needed constant control to keep from yawing New York Yacht Club had grown almost Figure 1: The 12-meter yacht in moderate weather. Comments from the insolent about its superior position in the Intrepid was typical of the designers of these yachts make it clear that race. Australia's winning of the cup made it America's Cup contenders of the 1960s and 70s. These they didn't know how to solve this serious possible for other American yacht clubs to yachts experienced the same problem. It was at this point that I con­ dream of winning the cup. At present a total type of stability and control cluded thatthe design of 12-meter yachts of 13 yachts are vying for the opportunity to problems that airplanes of the probably had not reached the peak of challenge Australia in the waters off Perth - 1920s did.
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