Word: photos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose members had commanded the forts in the 1690 Leisler Rebellion; another of whom is reputedly still owed £567 for paying for Manhattan's City Hall in 1803. Rex Brasher had no art training except at Tiffany's and at a Port land, Maine photo-engraver's. At 19 he set sail in a sloop down the Atlantic coast. In one spring afternoon on the deserted waste of Long Island's Far Rockaway he saw 86 different species of birds. He sold his sloop in Key West and went back to Brooklyn to paint what he had seen...
...order. It is a yellow plaque of selenium sulfide. A few drops of mercury in a furnace through which pass more than 200,000 Ib. of flue gas an hour, said A. J. Nerad, blackens the yellow plaque. The degree of blackening indicates the amount of mercury present. A photo-electric cell measures the blackening, warns workmen of danger...
...badly." She had not attempted to flatter Actress Katharine Cornell, wide of mouth, heavy of eyelid. There were two nudes because, Mrs. Mc-Cormick explained, "you can't have an exhibition without nudes." Amusing was what the artist called her "American Primitive"?a group, done from an old photo- graph and much resembling a colored tintype, of the late whiskered Joseph Medill, the Colonel as a boy of 16 his cousins Elinor ("Sissie") Patterson (now editor of the Washington Herald} and Joseph Medill Patterson, his late brother Medill. Wrote Critic C. J. Bulliet of the Chicago Evening Post...
...Taylor deals mainly with one type of physical phenomenon, the translation of light into sound. To illustrate this he will conduct demonstrations in which speech, song, and instrumental music are carried on a beam of light and will cause the photo tube to "see" light from various sources. In this experiment, light instantly sets up within the tube feeble electrical currents, which, amplified by vacuum tubes, are converted into sound waves and heard through a loud speaker connected to apparatus...
Called the "semagraph," Inventor Green's device is based upon use of the photo-electric cell. The special typewriter used in preparing copy prints a coded combination of dots under each character. Each group of dots interrupts a tiny beam of light in the semagraph, causing the proper type letter mold to fall into place...