Word: shutter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first command was sent when Mariner was still 107,000 miles away from Mars. This turned on the camera's shutter mechanism, started the scan platform searching with a wide-angle sensor for light from Mars, and turned on the tape recorder's power. Everything was going unbelievably well. Newsmen and families of the scientists gathered in JPL's Von Kármán Auditorium to await the cryptic reports from the primary tracking stations at Johannesburg in South Africa, Woomera in Australia and Goldstone in California...
...ever more gadgetry. But all too often the array of index numbers, knobs, dials and levers simply befuddled the Sunday photographer, and that telephoto shot of Versailles developed into a study in black. The industry's answer: sophisticated but carefree cameras that require little more than clicking the shutter. At the International Photographic Exposition in New York last week, every company from Agfa-Gevaert to Zeis-Ikon was showing off automated midgets...
Taking the picture itself is all but foolproof. Upon being loaded, both the Kodak and Rapid cassettes automatically adjust the camera for the speed-rating of the film being used. From there, automatic electric eyes take over, set optimum combination of shutter speed and lens opening for the amount of light. If there is not enough light, pointers pop into the view finder to tell the photographer to keep his shutter closed. Instead of bulky flash attachments, most of the new automated cameras have miniature, built-in flash units that disappear when...
...calmer times, students were still required to take part in manual labor, though not at such a frantic pace. One of the six school days every week was spent in a local factory, doing some unskilled task. My class was set to work polishing shutter pieces for a local camera assembly plant...
...newspaper and the rigamarole of the respective boards. With the managing editor, they thrilled to the whir of the presses and restrained from feeding the Linotype men; with the editoial chairman, they aspired to literary greatness; with the photographic chairman, they sparkled at the prospects of infinite shutter clicking; with the business manager they talked business...