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...barber or waiter. My decision to change professions made my mother very unhappy. My professor of mathematics told me; "Halsman, in a few months you can have your engineering degree and you want to become photographer!" But I had made up my mind I bought myself a photoflood lamp, a used enlarger and announced to all my friends that I had become a professional photographer...

Author: By Fung Lam, | Title: Philippe Halsman | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

Bill Changer. The first automatic device to make change for paper currency, long a vexing problem to vending-machine operators, was announced by Chicago's A.B.T. Manufacturing Corp. The table-model machine changes $1 bills by scanning the bill through six holes with photoflood lights, registering the beams on a light-sensitive surface. The machine recognizes and rejects counterfeits, foreign currency and bills of wrong denominations. It can be modified to handle $2, $5 or $10 bills. Estimated price when it goes on the market in the spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Products, Dec. 2, 1957 | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...sheet of kitchen oilcloth and then, with no false ideas of his own son's looks, scoured the neighborhood for a handsome model. The curly-headed subject was inveigled away from a sand-lot baseball game. The pic ture was snapped with the aid of two photoflood bulbs and Artist Ward's favor ite camera, a primitive battered box known as a "Monitor," introduced by Rochester Optical Co. in 1895 and withdrawn from production four years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: N. N. S. Awards | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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