Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The biggest eye in the world winked open and shut last week, a finished article. It was a long-range camera for the Army air service, with a nine-inch lens (the largest ever ground for a camera) to photograph the earth from an altitude of seven miles or so...
This astounding mechanism?the Fiske Reading Machine?consists of a small spring-tongs on which are mounted a lens for one eye, a shield for the other and a rack to hold reading matter?really a very simple contrivance, something like a, stereoscope, except that you use one eye instead...
Kicked and beaten, another, down on all fours, reaching out his hand to pick up the valuable lens of his shattered machine. A policeman smashed the reaching hand with a neat blow . . . kicked the lens far away. . . .
"From where our highest camp was stationed we could watch them climbing and with the powerful telescopic lens of my camera I knew that I would be able to take pictures of them even at the very top. The lens were good for the distance of two and a half...
Captain Noel was official photographer of the 1924 expedition. By the aid of telescopic lens his cameras took pictures of Mallory and his companion Irvine as they climbed up and up through the snow and ice over a mile away from the watchers. With oxygen tanks strapped to their backs...