Word: plate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defense of daguerreotypes, it was pointed out out that "as documents of human interest . . . they are more truthful in their revelation of personality than is the modern development. . . . Nor did the pioneer photographer neglect a fine appreciation for spacing and composition in the arrangement of his subject on the plate." "The elusive half smile, half frown of the posed groups" was traced to "the awkward time* required for the photographic process...
Dinners served on gold plate, another gift...
...most striking gain in our exports to Latin America was in automobiles; other large items were naval stores, cotton hosiery, building lumber, petroleum, and its products, tin plate, wire nails, machines for sewing, printing, adding and harvesting. Motion picture films are also on the increase among our exports...
Moving Pictures. Photographs at the rate of 300,000 a minute?31 times as fast as those taken by the slow-motion camera?are being made at Shoeburyness, England, by the British Ordnance Department, to examine the impact of shells on armor plate. The camera weighs two tons, and shows how golf balls and other hard objects are flattened and pressed out of shape when struck and in flight...
...Hudson River. But Baltimore and Washington cannot communicate satisfactorily by radio. This is due to a large "dead spot" or peculiar geological formation in the earth between the two cities, says Dr. James Harris Rogers, inventor of undersea and underground radio communication. The energy waves travel from base plate to base plate, rather than from aerial to aerial, according to Dr. Rogers. Long-distance messages take the way of least resistance and are not hampered by dead spots. Washington electrical experts are experimenting on the problem...