Word: glassful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...raised his glass, on high...
...presentation done, Dr. Ives explained to the physicists present a new camera invented by Dr. Clarence Whitney Kanolt of the U. S. Bureau of Mines. It makes pictures seem lifelike. In front of the photographic plate is a glass grating of alternate vertical light and dark lines. In photographing, the camera so moves before the subject that its centre is always on a line with the centre of the camera lens and plate. The finished picture is striped. Some of the stripes show the person or thing from one angle, others from other angles. When a second glass grating...
Another interesting machine described at the meeting was the recording spectrophotometer devised by Professor Arthur Cobb Hardy of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and General Electric's research staff. In the machine is a glass prism which breaks up the light reflected from any colored object into its spectroscopic lines. A chart of those lines is photographed and the picture may be sent by wire or wireless anywhere. Useful can this device be for recording the exact tints of textiles, oils, soap, cheese, lard, flour, butter, chocolate, glass, automobiles, tile, brick, roofing material, carpets, rope, hardware, paper, leather, cement, linoleum...
Still another significant invention came before the Optical Society. It was a refinement of Dr. William David Coolidge's cascading cathode tube which shoots pure electrons out through a thin nickel window (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926). The new tube's window is made of pyrex glass thinner than tissue paper and permits more electrons to escape from the tube's cathode than does Dr. Coolidge's nickel window. And the new contraption is relatively cheap, available for research laboratories everywhere to experiment with the mightiest rays that man has yet learned to control. Remarkable...
With eyes bandaged a Jew and a Nordic lay with ocular fraternity in Manhattan's Eye & Ear Hospital last week. The Nordic, one Bert Ferguson, had one glass eye. The Jew, one Charles E. Greenblatt, had a gauze-packed socket, into which a glass eye soon would be set. His extracted eye had had a tumor. His other eye was good. But Nordic Ferguson's other eye was bad. It bore a cataract, an opaque thickening of the cornea that prevented light images going through his pupil and striking upon his retina. So hopeless was his case that...