Word: thyratron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million amateurs. Of these, about 28 million are "casual," 5,000,000 are "serious" and 2,000,000 are "expert." The casual amateur is the one who takes a picture of his baby from 20 feet away, forgets to wind his film, and cannot tell a thyratron from a réseau.† He is looked down on by experts, but it is he who provides the vast ground swell of enthusiasm for photography, and he has helped pile up the statistics of photography's tremendous growth...
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