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...transmitter, a photograph, drawing or message is scanned photoelectrically as in television. Lights and shadows are converted by the scanner into electric impulses, which, at the receiving end, control a stylus under which a roll of carbon-backed paper...
Called the oceanograph, the Rossby instrument has a stylus which makes a temperature-pressure graph on a sheet of smoked aluminum foil. The foil is moved back & forth by a barometer and tension spring hookup which keeps track of the water pressure (hence the depth). The stylus is moved from side to side by a bimetallic thermometer which keeps track of the temperature. Its creators state that the oceanograph is accurate to within one foot of depth and one-tenth of one degree Fahrenheit in temperature. It is to be used on the 142-ft. auxiliary ketch Atlantis, peripatetic research...
...Beneker convey all the realism of being, and all the strength and solidity of steel. Perhaps it is the medium in which the work is done that accounts for the difference; the paintings depict with more life-like fidelity and color the shapes of qualities of things, the stylus tends to tinge the reproduction with the impression that the mind receives, and the imagination which is evoked by the vision...
...Stylus Club...
...undergraduate, a member of the Harvard Yacht, Institute of 1770, D.K.E., Iroquois, Stylus, Signet, Fly, and Hasty Pudding clubs...