Word: photos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stebbins began the work on Madison s hill. Last year he got a leave of absence, went out to California's Mt Wilson. To Mt. Wilson's 100-in. reflector he attached a photo-electric cell (which translates faint light into a current of electricity) and continued his studies of the brightness and color of stars. At Ann Arbor Mich, last month he was ready to tell the National Academy of Sciences that estimates of star distances from the earth must be revised from 10% to 200%. Other astronomers hailed his announcement as confirmation of their own researches...
More plaudits came to Wisconsin's astronomer last week with the description in the annual report of the Carnegie Institution of an improved type of photo-electric cell which he and his assistants have developed. Used with Mt. Wilson's world's-largest telescope, it will extend man's range of heavenly observation from the present limit of about 25,000,000 light years to some...
...films cost New Haven $3 a pupil last year. The 60? rate is possible because a New York photo-engraver mused. Three Powers brothers own & operate Powers Photo Engraving Co., one of the nation's biggest & best, and a half-dozen allied concerns. Brother Augustin Jay Powers, president, has currently been functioning as publicity man for New York City Democrats. Brother John Michael Powers is the financial man of the three. Brother Frank Thomas Powers, 50, is the tinkerer. Four years ago Tinkerer Frank Powers, to cheapen production costs in the Powers plants, which use thousands of photographs...
...intelligent. Cars stop precisely at floor levels. On each floor a light and a bell bring the tenant to the door of the ele- vator which will stop for him. Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., which with Otis Elevator Co. leads in U. S. ele- vator research* now attaches photo-electric cells to elevators. These prevent elevator doors closing on passengers, allow the doors to close the instant the passenger safely enters...
...Clark Grew, kinsman of John Pierpont Morgan, whose last post was Turkey. Mr. Grew stood for no nonsense in Tokyo. Laconically he cabled to the State Department : "The recent affair of the Osaka branch of the National City Bank of New York which is subjected to a charge of photo graphic espionage has assumed proportions which threaten to cause serious injury to the bank's prestige and business, if not to its personnel and property. "Grew therefore called on the Minister of Foreign Affairs this afternoon and laid the matter before him asking that full investigation be made...