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