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When the U. S. Navy, greatly increased in numbers of ships & men, was hurriedly preparing for the War, sextants, binoculars, telescopes were almost a German manufacturing monopoly. The supply in the U. S. was limited. Yet the new ships & men could not go to sea without eye-extensions. Knowing that...
The three aims of these men were to get data of the first contact, that is, the first instant that the shadow appears, and of the last contact, as well as to take photographs of the eclipse during its various stages. In watching the progress of the eclipse, a lens...
The late great John Pierpont Morgan once sat for his portrait. Because he sat impatiently, badly, the painter wanted a photograph to help him. Banker Morgan agreed to allow a photographer just two minutes for the job. The next day he arrived punctually to find Photographer Edward J. Steichen, 27...
Cell Film. Dr. Alexis Carrel, famed surgeon, put a cinema camera against that part of a microscope to which he usually puts his eye. By adjusting the lens to take one exposure per minute he took a moving picture of the growth, subdivision and death of a living cell and...
The benefit derived from work in the Photographic department is primarily a practical knowledge of the taking, developing, and enlarging of pictures. But the attraction which grips the neophyte who cannot distinguish between a lens and shutter when he reports, and his type constitutes the majority of candidates, is more...