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Orthodox explanation of eye function is that the shape of the eyeball is as unchanging as a glass eye; focusing is done by the elastic lens at the front of the eye; the six muscles around each eye have no function except to turn the eyeball. In myopia (nearsightedness) the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Exercise v. Eyeglasses | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

Any photographic film that is printed as a positive, no matter how old, can be put into any projector that is fitted with a Birch-Field "iriscope," can then be projected on a screen to show the scene's original tints, somewhat faint but true. Though few except Birch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chromatic Aberration | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Like the practice, the theory sounds almost too simple. When light is focused on a film by a lens, the various colors do not come to a focus at exactly the same distance from the lens. Violet and blue light are more sharply bent in their path than is red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chromatic Aberration | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

This pattern is not visible to the eye, nor when projected. But the light from a projector lamp is diverted by the aberration patterns into a conic shape that spreads out over the lens. Charles Birch-Field's iriscope adds the colors-reds in the outer regions of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chromatic Aberration | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

>A lens grinding firm testified that training in grinding quartz crystals had been reduced from three weeks to three days.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Success Team | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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