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The most remarkable piece of research done in making the microscope was the was the objective lens designed by David S. Gray '40, Gray's problem was to design a high-powered lens that would be simultaneously transparent to both ultra-violet and normal light without re-focussing. Mathematical calculations...
The new lens was the fundamental stumbling block, and once it was completed, other men went to work on an apparatus that would house the tiny piece of glass and enable it to perform its amazing function. Robert C. Jones '38, designed an electronic brain that instantly calculates the exposure...
Other Polaroid scientists soon joined him in the initial attacks upon theory. The first problem met was exactly what kind of device they wanted. What wave-length could best aid the biologists? What did the biologists want to find? Then there was the problem of how to make it, the...
Wells, camera at the ready, began running toward her, but a passing motorist, Cyrus A. Samuel, beat him to the scene. "Don't jump!" cried Samuel. Replied Mrs. Durant: "Nobody can do anything. I'm very ill." But as Samuel kept pleading, she seemed undecided. According to Samuel...
The mysterious disease is retrolental fibroplasia (RLF), in which there is a fibrous thickening of tissue behind the lens in the eye. Nobody knows the cause. The effect is to becloud the retina, the screen on which the lens focuses its image of things seen. Often the retina itself is...