Word: camera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flying over Cambridge in zero weather, handling a camera weighing over 100 pounds, taking pictures of the Stadium and the Houses; then returning to develop and print their negatives in the Geographical building--all this is just in the day's work for the Harvard student who takes "Geography 36," the course in Aerial Photography given by the Geographical department. Four United States Army officers, all connected with Wright Field, in Dayton, Ohio, and representing the Air and Engineering Corps, have charge of this unique course, presented in the second half-year...
...spring. For its size, this laboratory is one of the most thoroughly equipped aerial photography laboratories in the United States. It consists of seven rooms in the basement of the Geographical building. Two of these are used for the restitution of photographs taken with the 5-lens camera; four are given over to the processes of developing, printing, and enlarging, as well as for copying mosaics; and the last room is used for loading the cameras. This room is absolutely light proof, and without illumination of any sort, since aerial films are sensitive to all wave-lengths of light; that...
...cameras used in the course is equipped with five lenses, and weighs about 105 pounds; however, one man has no difficulty in handling it. This 5-lens camera has been found to be the best machine for taking photographs of large areas with the minimum amount of flying and using the minimum amount of film. Its range is approximately one mile for every 1000 feet of altitude; that is, if the plane were flying at 27,000 feet, the negative would represent an area measuring 27 miles each way. It is in the finishing of this negative that the restitution...
...centrifuge, arranged with a microscope to make the action visible within cost $500, but opens a new field to the research worker. A moving picture camera, to register the growth of plant life, which takes from 16 pictures a second to one picture every four minutes and 16 seconds cost about $550 but is indispensable to the laboratories...
...Milquetoast apologist to Mr. Tom Garner, explains to his wife that Tom Garner explains to his wife that Tom Garner was more than a Legree, more than the faithless, cruci, relentless devil, whose feet the world licked, whose name the world cursed. And where Henry's spirit listeth the camera follows, watching urchin Tom Garner high diving into a rocky bottom, president Tom Garner buying up rusty railroads, husband Tom Garner sweating out, for his wife, the tale of his new love...