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...human eye has ever seen a breeze. But two physicists recently produced a photograph of one. They announced a high-speed photography technique by which they have made unusually sensitive pictures of air currents, heat waves, sound waves...
Dziepatowski was 21 or 22. Through other members of the underground he got Karski false papers. Karski was now Kucharski, born in Luki, in poor health, a primary-school teacher. He was sent to a photographer in a poor district, given a photograph that was enough like him to be claimed as his, but vague enough to be disowned if necessary. For two weeks Karski waited, memorizing the new story of his life...
...feature of the exhibit is the "Vectograph," a three-dimensional picture taken from the air, which, viewed with the naked eye, seems to be a blurred photograph, but which appears as a revealing photograph in three dimensional detail, when seen through a special polaroid viewer. Supplementing the 16-poster display is a set of pictures describing the officers' programs in the Yard...
Glimpses of the Moon. Last week Britain's famed jack-of-all-sciences, J. B. S. Haldane, philosophically predicted a big postwar future for V2, which he thought could rise to 200 miles if fired vertically. Mused Haldane: "it could take photographs . . . [of] the sun and perhaps other heavenly bodies. . . . For the cost of a day of war, it should be practicable to send a series of rockets round the moon and photograph its far side...
...earth's suboceanic ribs under these deposits. Ewing has already discovered sand ripples in ocean bottoms as deep as 600 feet, indicating previously unsuspected currents. To pursue a theory that cold water moves along the ocean bottom from the poles to the equator, Ewing plans to photograph the movement of dye released on the ocean floor...