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Professor Morison band his action on the precedent that the historic appellation of Yard includes not only the area of the original cow pasture but also all territories within the College...
...about $13,000 one can buy a five-lens Fairchild for mapping larger areas. One lens shoots straight down, the other four at oblique angles. Distortion in scale caused by photographing at an angle is accurately corrected by a special instrument called a transforming printer. With one of the few nine-lens cameras Fairchild has built for surveying, an area of nearly 600 sq. mi. can be snapped at one exposure...
...maps, now made in a big way for the Department of Agriculture in connection with soil conservation work. In a vertical aerial photograph the earth's surface looks perfectly flat. Third dimensional relief can be obtained by the principle employed in the oldtime stereoscope. Pictures of the same area are shot from two slightly different positions, thus providing a parallax in the same way that a person's two eyes do in normal sight. The two pictures are then inserted in a super-glorified stereoscope (built with Zeiss for $50,000). So accurate are the controls, so precise...
...joint Harvard-U. S. Weather Bureau weather station at the summit of Mt. Washington, N. H., which since 1932 has supplied important observations used in forecasting for the Boston area, will be enabled to continue this winter as a result of recent financial support from the state of New Hampshire totaling about...
Located on the highest peak in New England, this station has for four years served as a valuable weather sentry for New England, warning of the approach of air masses over this area, and thus aiding in the improvement of local forecasting...