Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, the Air Force last week proudly displayed a photograph of a golf course taken from an altitude of 45,000 ft. (roughly 8½ miles) with one of its newest and most secret aerial cameras. Visible to the naked eye: two golfers standing on a green. Visible under a magnifying glass: a golf ball on the green...
...omniscient penman turns out to be a man named Kuno Schiller, a brilliant photographer who has discovered the N-ray-something which can catch men's thoughts for him on sensitized paper. Schiller offers to photograph foreign diplomats, reveal their secrets to the German government. The government accepts his offer and, for a time, acting on Schiller's information, conducts a preternaturally successful foreign policy. (It is the era of the Locarno Pact...
...once, Schiller disappears. For two years the government wallows along without him. Then a house burns down in a Berlin suburb, and Schiller's body is found in the ruins, along with the corpse of another man. His wife gives her evidence: in reading an N-ray photograph of her, Schiller saw the image of another man. Insanely jealous, he had dropped everything and devoted two years to finding the fellow. In the end. he had burned the house down around both of them...
Technically, the book has some very good photographs and some very fussy layout. The big photograph of a bruised and tired Johnny West in the locker room after a game is one of the finest ever to turn up in a local publication. Many of the other pictures, however, tend to wander around 315's pages so that they and the text frequently get lost in unrelated rectangles of photo-engraving and type. The text itself suffers from the vagaries of its many contributors; it is laced with gags like "Sergeant 'Sock it' Toomey." There is an inordinate number...
This weird optical system enables the camera to cover a 52° field, taking in one-tenth of the area of the visible sky. Where earlier meteor cameras were blind to any meteor smaller than a marble, the new model will photograph the tracks of meteors as small as buckshot. As soon as a duplicate camera is completed, the meteormen can compare their films and tell by triangulation the distance and altitude of each meteor trail...