Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camera to be placed in the nose of an airplane, for photographing the terrain just before a crash...
What did these tricks was a "terrain clearance indicator,"'first practical development of a radio-run absolute altimeter. From a transmitting antenna on one wing, radio waves are bounced groundward, caught on the rebound by a receiving antenna on the other wing. The elapsed time interval is measured in millionths of a second at radio's speed of 186,300 miles per second, is translated into feet on the altimeter...
...twigs, it is the spectacle of the same African natives abusing a tame lion, which the sound track describes as a man-eating monster. The cinema has, in fact, covered the subject of Africa so frequently and so badly that cinemaddicts might be excused for believing that the whole terrain must be at once less worthy of attention and more thoroughly photographed than any other place on earth, outside of Hollywood. One certain effect of Dark Rapture will be to shatter this conviction...
...outlying business centres more conspicuous from the air than the Loop. Most startling observation by Professor Bailey is that all cities follow the same pattern of growth, and two cities of the same nature and age have the same form, modified only slightly by differences in the natural terrain. To prove his theory, Professor Bailey plans to take his students next year on educational flights over other U. S. cities...
...Texans, Scott is found in better company than usual, with Joan Bennett as a belle of post-Civil War Texas, and May Robson as her doting grandmother, for his chief associates. The terrain, however, is far more suitable for coyotes than for foxes, and Cinemactor Scott's closest approach to the atmosphere to which he is accustomed in his private life is supplied by a herd of 10,000 snuffling beef cattle which he and Miss Bennett drive up the Chisholm Trail, from the Rio Grande to Kansas...