Word: colored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...found that the curves which had been roughly measured by previous investigators could be plotted with much more accuracy. They discovered that the smoothness and regularly of these curves are disturbed by a large number of small oscillations, and that these oscillations have to do with the perception of color...
Discover Perception of Color...
...color-impulses were transmitted from the tiny "cones" on the retina to the brain has not previously been known. Professor Chaffee and Professor Bovie discovered that all impulses passing along the optic nerve are rhythmical, that they go in a series of extremely rapid pulsation's or separate impulses, and that the nature of this rhythm varies with the color of the light seen...
White light, for instance, when flashed from the frog's eye, causes impulses to pass along the optic nerve to the galvanometer in groups, while blue light causes regularly recurring impulses. As the investigators alter the color of the light cast upon the frog's eye, the rhythm of the impulses varies accordingly. Incidentally, it has been noted that the frog is practically red blind; the frog's eye transmits only very faint impulses from red light...
...works of art such as the tympanum of the Cathedral of Strassburg, the entrance to the Cathedral of Freiburg, and the Berlin statue of the Great Elector. American artists have so deftly painted the casts that the very rust of the iron hinges, the polish of the bronze, the color of the stone, or the finish of the wood appear in the copy. There are also excellent electrotype reproductions of German work in gold and copies of paintings by Van Eyck, Durer, and Holbein. The whole collection, containing as it does examples of German art from the first...