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The device consists essentially of a fast camera hidden behind a mirror. The mirror contains a hole. After the subject has leisurely arranged his pose, clothes and face the way he wants to have them (reflecting mirrors help him pose for profile and half-profile views) he presses an electric...
Trans-Lux projection has advantages over the common method of projecting film from in front of a screen because it can be used in a low-ceilinged, fully lighted room. A Trans-Lux lens placed eight feet behind a screen projects a picture eight feet wide. Standard film can be...
Over Manhattan and Brooklyn one night last week a strange new beam of light appeared in place of an old one which had vanished. The new one: an advertising searchlight designed by one Alfred Gauthier, to etch letters and legends in the sky even when there are no clouds to...
The Columbia Professor's iconoclastic remark, even if it was not uttered solely to goad the audience, is not so cynical as it will sound to some. Even for those who are not consciously working toward any specific objective, college is more than an empty last resource. The comparatively leisurely...
Mr. Grace explained to his mystified audience that the invention is known as the "scrambled speech" method of telephony recently developed by the clever, hardworking scientists of Bell Telephone Laboratories. The invention consists of two complicated pieces of apparatus. One, located at the transmitting end, inverts ordinary speech in much...