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Word: lensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The new gadget is a ring-shaped, gas-filled flash tube around the lens. When the shutter opens, a whopping charge of electricity (2,000 volts) surges through the tube from a condenser, with a light as bright as the sun. The flash is so bright that the natural lighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Never Mind the Birdie | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

The blind may soon have an electrical gadget to help them get around without bumping into obstacles. The basic idea, now being worked on by the Army Signal Corps, is a small box shooting out a narrow beam of light. By turning the beam from side to side, the blind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Blind Man's Radar | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

Here is a photograph of the Selma Burke plaque of President Roosevelt. . . . Comparing it with the photograph published in TIME [Sept. 17], you can see how dreadfully the latter distorts the sculptured head, elongating it from tip of chin to tip of crown, what would amount, I think, to at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1945 | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

¶ By Eastman Kodak Co.: a 48-inch telephoto lens, the biggest Eastman has ever built, which can take clear pictures at ten miles.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Inventions of the Month | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

In 1925, Dr. Stein, then resident eye physician at Cook County Hospital, Chicago, wrote a learned, respected treatise called The Use of Telescopic Spectacles and Distil Lens en. But Dr. Stein finally gave up medicine and devoted his whole time to booking dance bands.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Octopus | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

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