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...Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn, is a manufacturer of optical instruments. A year ago, it was looking for a mechanical engineer with a good grounding in physics and other sciences who was also experienced in administrative work. Dr. Lee Davenport, Perkin-Elmer's executive vice-president, knew of a 32-year-old engineer who possessed this rare combination of talents. The trouble was that the man was satisfied with the job he had and, when Davenport called him, not only turned down the offer of more pay, but even declined an invitation to come to Norwalk...
...hunch, Davenport approached the man again last October. To Davenport's surprise, the young engineer asked a number of questions which showed his familiarity with the work of Perkin-Elmer Corp. This time he accepted with alacrity another invitation to visit Norwalk. In due course, he accepted...
What had made the difference? Two stories in TIME. During the intervening months, the engineer had read in TIME'S Science section about the work Perkin-Elmer was doing with new types of photographic equipment (March 12; June 4). Before that, he told Davenport, the company's name meant nothing...
Like the Transverse Panoramic Camera (TIME, March 12), the meteor camera is a product of the Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn., founded in 1939 by Richard S. Perkin, a bored Wall Street man whose hobby was amateur astronomy. Teaming up with another amateur astronomer, Charles W. Elmer, he was soon turning out such optical oddities as prisms of poisonous thallium iodide (for infrared work), as well as flame photometers and infra-red spectrometers...
...fishbowl lenses of the meteor camera almost stopped even Perkin-Elmer. "When we first saw the plans," said Perkin, "we thought we would be nuts to tackle it." But their job turned out almost too well. The camera forms a star image so small and sharp that it hits only one or two grains in the sensitive emulsion on a photographic film. As a result, the camera must be used slightly out of focus to make star images big enough for easy study...