Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Worryin' Over You and You Will Come Back to Me (Brunswick)?Abe Lyman and every instrument in his California Orchestra wring dry two of the month's best tunes...
...saying anything about it. . . . "* Guided by Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames, provost of Johns Hopkins University and chairman of the N. A. C. A., the visitors saw latest developments in the committee's research facilities: ¶ A motion picture camera designed to photograph all the dials on an airplane instrument board during a test flight, permitting later study far more detailed than a testpilot's pencilled log could afford. ¶ A "recording multiple manometer'' which registers the varying pressures upon 120 distinct portions of the wings during all maneuvers...
When the lights went up again, spectators saw the instrument which had been accomplishing these wonders. It looked like a machine on which Novelist Jules Verne and Cartoonist Rube Goldberg had collaborated. It looked most like a giant dumb-bell (14 ft. high), hinged where a giant would grip it. The two knobs were spotted with "eyes," each fitted with lenses and lights, which projected "stars" on the ceiling. In the handle was machinery governing the motions of the planets...
...idea for an instrument which would dramatize astronomy, make it accessible to lay people, belongs to Professor Max Wolf, astronomer at Heidelberg University. His suggestion was executed by Carl Zeiss, Jena's great optical goods manufacturer. This original is now at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. All subsequent planetariums have been made by Zeiss. Most interesting of all is on top of the Hannoverischer Anzeiger's ten-story building at Hanover, built for publicity...
...Zeiss company has several reasons for hoping that its instrument will reawaken interest in the subject. One: the Zeiss planetarium sells for $75,000. The building which houses the instrument costs much more. Chicago's cost Donor Adler about $600,000. The gift was prompted by the impression made upon him by a performance seen in Munich...