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...cameras have greater appeal to shutterbugs around the world than Germany's famed Zeiss Contax. But Zeiss has had its troubles making it. At war's end. It lost its huge plant at Jena, along with 288 of its key designers and scientists, to the Russians: on top of that, its Contax patents expired, and competitors flooded the market with imitations...
...septuagenarians: Walter Bauersfeld, 72, inventor of the planetarium and a 46-year Zeissman; and Paul Henrichs, 71, who joined the company in 1901 and was longtime boss of its British operations. East & West. Zeiss's postwar comeback started from scratch, after the U.S. occupation forces pulled back from Jena and the Russians took over. But the U.S. had managed to salvage something. It sent a fleet of trucks to Jena and moved 124 top Zeissmen into the Western zone. Under the leadership of Bauersfeld and Henrichs. they rented floor space in a Heidenheim cigar factory, .borrowed tools and lathes...
When Dr. Zernike took his invention to the great Carl Zeiss Works at Jena, Germany in 1932, he was told: "It is impractical, and if it were not, we would have produced it already." But when U.S. troops reached Jena in 1945, they found micropictures taken with Dr. Zernike's system. Since then it has been adopted by laboratories all over the world...
Fireballs & Astrophysics. The gift of Charles Hayden, a dapper Boston-born banker (Hayden, Stone & Co.) who made millions speculating in copper, the versatile robot was built at the Zeiss Works in Jena, Germany at a cost of $110,000. When it made its debut, it was the fourth such instrument installed in a U.S. planetarium. There are now six Zeiss planetaria spotted across the country...
...from Author Napoleon's small start in Corsica to his triumph at Marengo (1800), then make a 15-year leap to his return from Elba and his downfall at Waterloo. Still lacking (because Napoleon never lived to write them) are accounts of his imperial heyday, his victories at Jena and Austerlitz, the disastrous Russian campaign...