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...offer at Geneva to soften its demand for on-site nuclear inspection stations (see THE NATION), is based in part on the careful reckonings of a little-known Boston electronics company. Since its incorporation 15 years ago, Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier, Inc., has timed or measured every U.S. nuclear blast...
Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier first got together in 1934, when Chairman Harold E. Edgerton, now 59, was an M.I.T. professor of electrical engineering and President Kenneth J. Germeshausen, 55, and Executive Vice President Herbert E. Grier, 50, were his research assistants. The three developed a powerful strobe light for high-speed photography, but before they could market it, they were scooped up into World War II research on the atom bomb and sensitive aerial photography. At war's end, they incorporated at the AEC's request. As a small company...
...picture was taken with a special camera made by Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier, Inc. of Boston. Its shutter has no moving parts, only two sheets of polarizing material, something like the stuff in the glasses that are used to view 3-D movies. When light passes through the first of them, it is polarized so that its waves vibrate in a single direction. Then it cannot pass through the second sheet, whose plane of polarization is set at right angles to that of the first sheet. In this condition the shutter is closed...
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