Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talent to indulge his precocious interest in photography. Ordered to Arizona for his health after a futile attempt to get into the Army during the War, he set out to improve the crude cameras then used in aerial photography. Within a few years he had developed a precision instrument as far removed from the ordinary camera as a micrometer from a tape measure...
...about $13,000 one can buy a five-lens Fairchild for mapping larger areas. One lens shoots straight down, the other four at oblique angles. Distortion in scale caused by photographing at an angle is accurately corrected by a special instrument called a transforming printer. With one of the few nine-lens cameras Fairchild has built for surveying, an area of nearly 600 sq. mi. can be snapped at one exposure...
...field entirely to itself in the U. S., and its equipment is standard in the civil and military services of no less than 21 for eign lands. Eastman Kodak is quite content to supply film. One growing use for film is in Fairchild's machine-gun camera, an instrument for training combat pilots...
...from two slightly different positions, thus providing a parallax in the same way that a person's two eyes do in normal sight. The two pictures are then inserted in a super-glorified stereoscope (built with Zeiss for $50,000). So accurate are the controls, so precise the instruments, that with the aid of another optical illusion it is possible on a flat map to trace from the apparent relief shown by the stereoscope the contour lines passing through points of the same elevation. Relatively limited is the demand for Fairchild's highly-specialized goods and services. Sales...
...sympathize; theirs was the real tragedy. They were of the liberal-intellectual group who believed that political and social problems must be examined by the clear rays of reason, who thought that enduring reform came only from an enlightened sports of peaceable compromise and free discussion. But their instrument of government was captured by Leftists and used for their own purposes, thus playing into the hands of another political group with a similar all-exclusive ideology, that of Fascism. In the background lay the stark facts that society was composed of the very rich and the very poor, that...