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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.
Risser and Doremus think last week's elaborately curving baseball is the best special effect they have ever devised, and jealously guard the details of its operation. To bring it off, they ran a string through the baseball to control its flight, used a wide-angle lens to make...