Word: camera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moving Pictures. Photographs at the rate of 300,000 a minute?31 times as fast as those taken by the slow-motion camera?are being made at Shoeburyness, England, by the British Ordnance Department, to examine the impact of shells on armor plate. The camera weighs two tons, and shows how golf balls and other hard objects are flattened and pressed out of shape when struck and in flight...
...bridal party enters upon the second platform of the Eiffel Tower. They want to be photographed, but the photographer's "birdie," who happens to be an ostrich, has escaped. However, he lines up the bridal party and says: "Watch for the little birdie." Pop goes the camera and out jumps a bathing girl, picture postcard style. The photographer tries again. Out comes the future son of the blushing bridal couple. Once again and out pops a lion who eats up the best man (a General). Finally the ostrich reappears, is induced to reenter the camera and all is happy...
...Yale telescope, intended especially for photography, is nothing more than a camera 36 feet long. The principal lenses are 26 inches in diameter and average two inches in thickness. To secure good photographs, it is necessary that the telescope should exactly follow the stars. For this purpose, telescopes are provided with a mechanism for counteracting the effect of the rotation of the earth. Since the telescope must be rotated toward the west at the rate of one turn in 24 hours and this with great delicacy, the ball bearings on which the telescope moves must be of the highest type...
...this purpose a ten-inch visual telescope is mounted on the same tube with the 26-inch camera lens. Through this the astronomer watches a faint star and counteracts every apparent displacement of the star from a fixed point by operating delicate motions up and down and right and left. In this way it is possible to secure star images on the photographic plate that are only about one-thousandth of an inch in size...
...print exhibit was also held at the Camera Club, Manhattan, by Dr. Theron W. Kilmer, a physician who specializes in portrait studies of uncommon types in this difficult medium. This exhibition will later tour...