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...tourist who wants to see all the sights turns his head continually from side to side. So does a new, monstrous aerial camera shown last week by Perkin-Elmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn. By twisting its optical neck as it hangs in its airplane mount, it will be capable of taking a detailed picture of the whole state of Pennsylvania in one day of sightseeing...
Since the image formed by the lens is a, moving one, the film must move in stept with it. In the Perkin-Elmer camera, the film is 18 inches wide and is carried in reels weighing 400 Ibs. Every time the prism makes its sweep, about ten feet of film race past the slit where the image forms. A complicated mechanism makes the film move slightly slantwise during part of its rush. This is designed to compensate for the forward motion of the airplane and keep the image from "drifting" on the film...
Observatory Director Harlow Shapley last week took formal possession of the new telescope from Charles W. Elmer, co founder of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation which built the instrument...
...A.C.S.'s President Thomas Midgley Jr. complained that scientific progress was suffering from "too many old men at the helm." An inventor who made his most important discovery (tetraethyl lead in gas) at 33, Dr. Midgley, now 55, cited cases (e.g., Sir William Perkin's invention of aniline dyes at 18) to show that invention is a young man's game. Said he: "Every executive who has lived beyond the age of 40 is guilty, to some slight extent, of not getting out of the way of the younger...
Last week, as if symbolizing this momentous change, which may affect U.S. industry long after World War II is over, the Society of Chemical Industry gave its top award, the Perkin Medal, not to a leader of an established chemical firm like Carbide, Monsanto or Du Pont, but to Dr. Robert Erastus Wilson, head of Pan American Petroleum & Transport Co., a subsidiary of Standard...