Word: snapshotted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward Bausch invented the iris diaphragm shutter which made the snapshot camera practical. Later he made a deal with the late great Ernst Abbe, head of the Carl Zeiss Works of Jena, to make Zeiss prism binoculars in the U. S., trading Bausch manufacturing for Zeiss research facilities. The deal held good until the War, when Bausch perforce perfected the U. S. manufacture of fine optical glass, made 3,500 binoculars a week (besides periscopes, range finders, gun sight telescopes, searchlight mirrors). War demands mechanized the manufacture of microscopes. Prices fell from over $1,000 for hand-worked ones...
...trouble with Japanese authorities for taking photographs over forbidden area. Said "Cy" Caldwell, associate editor of Aero Digest: ". . . If Ivan had been on the job, Clyde not only could have taken the pictures but Ivan would have charged the Mikado $10 for looking at them and sold him a snapshot of himself and a bag of peanuts for $1 more...
...enlisted men of His Majesty's fighting forces the name "Fanny" conjures up a mental snapshot of rich, curvesome Dame Fanny Lucy Houston whose social equals call her "Lucy...
...worked out on the principle already perfected in wired telephony. In the future, orchestras may play for many microphones, scattered through the studio or auditorium to best acoustical advantage. The sum of the sounds they pick up should compare to present radio as a stereopticon view compares to a snapshot...
...waits until the image of the person at the other end, the size of a desk-photograph, flickers on a little lens. Voices in telephonic television boom resonantly and recognizably (they are carried over regular telephone wires) but the image on the little screen is uncertain, like a snapshot taken out of focus. Weirdly this snapshot rolls its unfocused eyes and moves its puffy lips. Celebrities who have telephoned their pictures and voices include King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni of Siam, who chattered in their own language, and Banker Charles Edwin Mitchell, who said: "Why, if you linked...