Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the operating theater, the TV camera's lens turret is mounted in the overhead light, directly above the surgeon's table. This has two advantages: it keeps the lens turret out of the surgeon's way, and it keeps him out of the camera's...
As he had never stirred Americans, he stirred Asians. At Haneda Airport, he was mobbed by Japanese photographers; shaving in his bathroom at the Fujiya Hotel, he glanced out to see a photographer training a long-distance lens on him. He was the man who had come to liberate Japan...
The image of the object to be photographed is first focused on a glass plate covered with an antimony and cesium compound, which gives off electrons when struck by light. At every point in the image electrons are knocked loose. Off to a slow start, they are whisked away at...
...meteors was shipped last week to Harvard's meteor station near Las Cruces, N.Mex. Weighing 5,000 Ibs. and mounted on an odd, horseshoe yoke, it looks like nothing else on earth. The outer lens, 18 in. in diameter, is as convex as a fishbowl. Inside are other lenses, one of them also bowl-shaped, and a 23-in. concave mirror. The film is placed between the lenses and sucked by a vacuum against the curved surface...
The optical system of the new "Super-Schmidt" camera was designed by James G. Baker, research associate in Astronomy. The design represents a radical advancement over the lens-mirror arrangement developed by the late Bernhard Schmidt, German instrument maker.