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...inch. Different from the lens of eye glass or microscope, they resemble rather the lens-like drops of moisture which split up the sunlight after a storm, making a rainbow. Once the process is perfected, they are simple, economical to make. The camera is fitted with a three-color filter: red, green, blue; the red, green, blue rays coming from the subject march each through its own section, pass through the main camera lens; fall upon the tiny film lenses. These act as policemen, guiding each light ray to its own place on the sensitive emulsion; making that place more...
...pressure shattered the bones of cadavers, although bones of living patients can stand greater battering without splitting untowardly. The chief problem in perfecting the device was to get the power air sterile enough for the operating room. That Surgeon-Inventor Pitkin accomplished by passing the air through an alcohol filter...
...addition we have bought about 60 tons of paper, of all sizes and shapes and kinds, Whatman's filter papers, seismograph paper, writing paper, toilet paper, napkins, towels, wrapping paper, photograph paper, blotting paper, building paper, paper boxes, paper confetti, paper for books and printing, card-board, press board, Japanese lanterns...
...prepared for them a bowl of the sacred nectar kava, "by drinking which the Chief is brought near and like unto his people." When this potent beverage had been mixed, stirred, and the more solid ingredients pounded in a great bowl, the Chief personally strained it through a filter of woven bark, saying: "This make kava very nice. This take out all the grit." The Duke, no weakling, downed a huge swallow of kava. Thereafter, although flushed for a moment, he gave no sign or indication of its taste...
During December rumors too vague to be set in type began to filter from Italy that a plot to dethrone the King and proclaim Signer Mussolini Emperor had almost succeeded...