Word: prisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...film could produce such distinct "stills." The Tribune's camera was invented by one Lewis H. Moomaw of suburban Wilmette, a onetime small producer of Hollywood cinemas, lately in the engineering department of Stewart-Warner Corp. All he would say about his camera was that it contains a prism, will take a series of quick flashes faster than a cinema camera...
...chief faults in this process were that it blurred all outlines, failed to register either pure blue or pure yellow and had a range limited to garish greens and oranges. By 1932, Dr. Kalmus had a new process based on a camera which split light through a three-sided prism onto three negatives (red, blue and yellow), which recorded all the colors of the rainbow with fidelity. By this time the only producer who would listen to him was Walt Disney, whose Silly Symphonies in 1932 were the first movies made with the new three-color process and the ones...
...Institute has an $1,800 triangular quartz prism for studying the effect on plants of various wavelengths of light. Another equipment item is a huge, mobile frame, shaped like a dirigible hangar carrying powerful lights in the roof. It can be wheeled over a greenhouse to observe plant behavior under continuous 24-hour illumination. It has been learned that barley, cabbage and clover subjected to such treatment keep on growing 24 hours a day but that tomato plants quit, light or no light, and rest five to seven hours...
...Algernon Moncrieff, E. A. Peterson '35; the Reverend Canon Chasuble, L. H. Eunis 4G: Merriman, the butler, L. vonB. Nichols '35; Lane, a manservant, D. V. McGranahan '35; Lady Brackmell, William Abbott 1L; Honorable Gwendolyn Fairfax, R. L. Cummings, Jr. '35; Cecily Cardew, T. M. Hastings '34; Miss Prism, F. F. Silver...
...spectrum like the colors of the rainbow. In this imaginary scheme, a pure note such as the sound of a tuning-fork will fall neatly into one line on the band; while complex sounds, like the voice, will shatter apart into their several components like sunlight in a prism. With this picture in mind, and knowing that in the field of optics the most evanescent tints can be reduced to the familiar primary colors, the recording engineers are in a sense no more awed before the mixed web of orchestral tone than before the simple sound of a bell. They...