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...report recommended a minimum of 15 foot-candles for classrooms and offices, and a photoelectric control to turn on lights when illumination falls below the minimum. Because glare is as harmful as dimness, it also advised that glossy finish on furniture and glass tops on tables be eliminated, that pictures be varnished instead of glassed, that desks be shaded from the sun, that indirect lighting be used...
Batting drill was the order of the day, with the Mitchellmen experiencing considerable difficulty in meeting the ball under the unaccustomed glare...
...Lopez objects to the high notes of "the rocket's red glare." Would he expect anyone to describe rockets with low notes? . . . He also objects to "land of the free" as being too high. Instead of being too high, it is one of the loveliest climaxes ever written to any song. ... I have been a composer for many years, and have never heard as much as one complaint about the high notes of our National Anthem until Mr. Lopez came along...
...sometimes difficult or impossible for police in patrol cars to read the license plates of a speeder because of headlight glare, fog, murk or because the lamp supposed to illuminate the license plate is extinguished. But such conditions would not affect infrared radiation. Last week Commissioner Foote's plan was to install in patrol cars infrared cameras which would snap a picture of the license plate of a car ahead under the worst conditions. By means of a mirror arrangement the patrol car's speedometer will be included in the picture, thus giving a record of the speeder...
Every phenomena in which light and glass are involved will be affected by this discovery. Of primary importance will be its practical application in eliminating 90 percent of headlight glare of oncoming cars. However this can be achieved only when Polaroid is in general use for, in order to be effective the wind shield must be polarized as well as the glass in auto headlamps...