Word: camera
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very fine Camera with a large number of dry plates, provided with two lenses and other improvements, is quite new, will be sold for $35.00. Lee L. Powers, 30 Boylston St. Packing cases delivered at rooms...
...very fine Camera with a large number of dry plates, provided with two lenses and other improvements, is quite new, will be sold for $35.00. Lee L. Powers, 30 Boylston St. Packing cases delivered at rooms...
...breasted the tape, it would have been impossible to learn from it who had won. The instrument stood on the bank at the extreme outside edge of the path. about 25 yards from the finish, and the view obtained was from the rear of the runners. Nearest to the camera was the rearmost man, either Horr of Cornell, or Lund of Harvard, fully 10 feet behind his leaders. Next came Baker, of Harvard; Bonine, of Michigan, and either Lund or Horr, almost exactly abreast, Bonine, if anything, a shade behind the others. A few feet in front of this...
...camera seen nothing and records nothing which the human eye, placed it in the same position, would not see; and no man, standing where the instrument stood, could have known who won. A man five yards in front or behind the finish-line frequently thinks the race won by a runner who was a full yard behind. A man 20 or 25 yards away knows nothing at all about a close finish, and the camera knows no more than the man. The writer of this article sat five yards behind the finish line, and thought Sherrill...
...very fine Camera with a large number of dry plates, provided with two lenses and other improvements, is quite new, will be sold for $35.00. Lee L. Powers, 30 Boylston St. Packing cases delivered at rooms...