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Most of the moving images which U. S. cinemaudiences goggle at are projected through Bausch & Lomb lenses. Bausch & Lomb's 17,000 other products include spectacles, microscopes (15,000 a year), gun sights and range finders for the U. S. Army & Navy, binoculars, reading glasses, saccharimeters, spectroscopes...
Last week it was disclosed that Dr. Humason has put to work the world's fastest lens, for further survey of the abysses beyond the Milky Way. Designed by Dr. Wilbur Bramley Rayton, technical chief of Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., the lens has a speed of f:0.59, six and one-half times faster than commonly used in minicameras (f:1.5). The necessary time for spectographing remote nebulae has been cut in half, in one instance from 120 hours to 60 hours. "It is now possible," said Dr. Humason, "to observe faint objects which have heretofore seemed hopeless...
...survey division $245,000. Staffed and equipped to turn out almost any kind of precision instrument, Fairchild's Woodside (N. Y.) plant has lately added sound and recording equipment. Lens-making it has never tried, preferring to purchase the types it needs from famed grinders like Bausch & Lomb...
Other vigorous oldsters in the scientific limelight at Rochester last week were Professor Frederick George Novy, 71, of the University of Michigan, and President Edward Bausch, 81, of Rochester's Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. To Septuagenarian Dr. Novy, only living U. S. bacteriologist who studied under Pasteur (1822-95), one of the few living who studied under Koch (1843-1910), prototype of benign and learned Dr. Gottlieb in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith, Octogenarian Mr. Bausch, who still designs new optical devices, last week gave a newly completed microscope, 250,000th built by Bausch & Lomb during 60 years of manufacturing...
...scrip negotiable within its walls for tips, cigars, newspapers, cosmetics, haircuts. Among those who lined up at the cashier's window to get their scrip: onetime Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime Speaker of the House Frederick Huntington Gillett, Banker Henry G. Lapham of Boston, Edward Bausch (& Lomb), President William G, Stuber of Eastman Kodak Co., onetime President Charles Doran of Sperry Gyroscope Co., John Hays Hammond, Packer Edward A. Cudahy Jr., Princess Erik of Denmark, Banker Albert E. Nettleton, Louis B. Kuppenheimer (clothes), Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan (Chicago's Rush Medical College), Sir Montagu 6 Lady...