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Many a medical book would make a layman turn green around the gills. One such book, The Human Eye (Bausch & Lomb Press; $6.50), had last week sold 10,000 copies. Its gill-greening quality -and the great value of the book for eye doctors - lies in its superimposed illustrations: turning the pages is like peeling off slices of the eye and parts of its socket, layer upon layer, until all that remains is bare bone. The book consists of five-color transparencies printed on heavy Cellophane and laid on one another in perfect register. On the top Cellophane page appears...
...Optical lenses now produced by Bausch & Lomb allow observers to look directly into the sun, favorite concealment of hostile bombers...
...concludes Eye-man Gordon Lynn Walls (of Bausch & Lomb) in the current Journal of Applied Physics. Dr. Walls's theories will hardly quiet the old argument as to whether the bull sees red, or merely the movement of the matador's cape. Dog lovers will continue to protest the thought that their pets live in a colorless grey world.* But Biologist Walls outlines a hypothesis of color vision new to the layman. The ability to see colors Dr. Walls links directly to visual acuity-the ability to see well. He points out that the vertebrates with the greatest...
Admiral Blandy's chief worry is about fire-control and optical instruments. High up on the Bureau of Ordnance's list of companies which rate a production E (for Excellence) is Bausch & Lomb. But, although it is working at top speed, it cannot supply all that the Ordnance Bureau needs. Says Admiral Blandy: "Consider that a single fire-control unit may weigh up to a ton, and that tolerances in that unit will scale down to .0005 of an inch, about half the thickness of a cigaret paper, and you'll see why we'd like...
...trade-restraining device. Last December he brought suit against Corning Glass Works, Hartford Empire Co. (whose tight hold on glassmaking machinery was publicized by TNEC) and most of the glass industry, will try the case next month. In March he jumped Masonite Corp. (which is fighting) and Bausch & Lomb (which paid a $40,000 fine) for contracts he did not like. Next came the spectacle industry and Johns-Manville. Meanwhile France fell...