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Earth's Curve. Exhibited to the Cleveland scientists by Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, director of research of Eastman Kodak Co., was the first photograph ever taken showing the earth's curvature. Snapped in one-fiftieth of a second from an airplane in South America by Captain Albert W. Stevens, U. S. Army photographer, the picture shows a stretch of 300 miles of pampas beyond which rise the Andes. The distant horizon line of the pampas is curved slightly downward at one end. The picture was taken on film made sensitive to red and infra-red rays (not scattered...
Beasley, of the Beasley-Eastman Laboratories, Detroit, manufacturers of diathermy apparatus, and president of the Sanitarium Equipment Co., Battle Creek, Mich., the world's largest manufacturers of physical therapy apparatus...
...George Eastman waits until his Rochester fellow-citizens give their bits and then adds 10% to their total. Consequently Rochester has the highest per capita record ($4.61½) for chest drives...
...Eastman last week confirmed his $10,000 gift to the League of Nations; to finance its discussion of his 13-month calendar reform...
...Eastman Kodak Co. bought control of the interests in several color-photography processes developed over a period of 15 years by: Leopold Mannes, son of Violinist David Mannes, nephew of Conductor Walter Damrosch; and Leo Godowsky, son of Pianist Leopold Godowsky, brother-in-law of Composer George Gershwin. Inventor Mannes, Harvard-man, is a composer, teaches piano. Inventor Godowsky is a concert violinist, attended the University of California...