Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blended Light. While a neutron-star might be luminous, it would probably be too small to be seen in any telescope. But Zwicky believes that it will act as a "gravitational lens." The gravitational field around it will be so intense that it will bend all light coming near it...
After watching the sky for ten years now, Zwicky has found no such star, but he has not given up. The 48-in. Schmidt telescope on Palomar Mountain may soon be fitted with powerful spectroscopic equipment. With this Zwicky hopes he will find a tiny neutron star made visible by...
Peering inconspicuously through a small hole in his tie was the tiny lens of a Robot camera which Miller had hung around his neck under his shirt. With it, he took 108 pictures of the meeting. Next day he had an addition. He picked up two copies of a fat...
Swooping Gondola. Last week the Naval Air Development Center at Johnsville, Pa. unveiled a monstrous apparatus for studying the effect of G-forces on fragile human flesh. In a trim, museumlike building, a soft, cantilever arm whirls in a horizontal circle, carrying on its end a lens-shaped aluminum "gondola...
...worth of optical machinery in a rented curling rink. The workers, from Leitz's famed optical works at Wetzlar, began setting up lens-grinders, buffers, drills, in preparation for moving into a new $200,000 factory near by. There they will assemble Leica cameras, photo accessories, special lenses, and aim for a share of rearmament's precision optical orders...