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During World War II, Dr. Witcher did distinguished work on radar. Later he turned to a scientific study of the special needs of blind people. This work took him to Haskins Laboratories, New York City, and later to M.I.T., where he concentrated on practical gadgets. The one demonstrated last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vision Probe | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

Three cameras from New York's WABC-TV will be used in Priceton's Dillon gymnasium, including one with a special lens capable of picking up the movies from the same screen which the players will be watching.

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Princeton Coach, Game Movies To Appear on 'Omnibus' Sunday | 11/10/1956 | See Source »

Atomic Light. A radioactive flashlight is being sold by Boston's New England Nuclear Corp. The small metal cylinder (about i in. in diameter, 1½ in. long) has a plastic lens at one end, contains a long-lasting tritium "battery" produced at Oak Ridge. It will take twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

We sat down. Somebody remarked that there are 250,000 plankton in a teaspoonful of sea water, I eyed my glass. There is no trust in the world, I thought, and somebody asked how large, really, is a portuguese man o'war? "You must be using a magnifying glass on...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: More Secrets of the Reef | 10/24/1956 | See Source »

Researchers have been busy with the distinction between pain itself and a sufferer's reaction to it. Why does a Szechwan coolie grit his teeth and stifle his cries when, with no anesthetic, his leg is sawed off, while a Madison Avenue account man leaps out of his grey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Problem of Pain | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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