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...credo of all conservationists. what gave vision to this concept was the work of such artists as Thomas Cole of the Hudson River school. Cole, as Poet Bryant rhapsodized, painted "pictures which carried the eye over scenes of wild grandeur peculiar to our country, over our aerial mountain tops with their mighty growth of forest never touched by the axe, into the depth of skies bright with hues of our own climate" the primeval forest
...make sure they were not false. A freelance photographer who went to Patna to snap pictures of the Ganges River for a U.S. magazine was arrested and jailed because the police, who had never seen equipment as sophisticated as his 200-mm. telephoto lens, thought it was an aerial camera. In Bombay, nocturnal cremations were banned lest they serve as fiery beacons for enemy aircraft...
...passion for amateur astronomy, Perkin and a friend named Charles Elmer in 1938 opened a small shop in a converted Jersey City rathskeller to grind precision lenses, mirrors and prisms for telescopes. When World War II came, the fledgling company suddenly found itself designing the optics for bombsights, aerial cameras, range finders and submarine periscopes...
...what pilots call an "armed wreck" (armed reconnaissance), a Navy A-4 Skyhawk felt the long arm of SAM-just as an Air Force Phantom had on July 24. The flight was out of range of any of the North Vietnamese missile sites so far identified by U.S. aerial intelligence, leading to the conclusion that Russia is supplying Ho Chi Minh with mobile surface-to-air missiles, much like the U.S.-built Hawk missile units that were installed in South Viet Nam last February. The sobering fact is that at present the U.S. military has no certain means of determining...
Robert Leighton, took aerial photos of a volcanic area in the Mojave Desert and degraded them to Mariner's 200-line resolution. They practiced on weather pictures taken by Tiros satellites and on rocket photos of the Earth. They pored over purposely fuzzed-up pictures of relief maps of Southern California. By matching their conclusions with the known features of the areas they studied, they learned how to judge distances and sizes, how to distinguish contours from shadows and reflections...