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...baby boa-constrictor constrict. An order from the Biology Department had come in for a film of a boa-constrictor eating his dinner; a sleck, five-foot specimen was accordingly secured, but it refused to perform even in the face of alternate starvation in solitude and mice before the camera...
...necessarily invoice personal flying", stated Captain A. W. Stevens, of the U. S. Army Air Corps, in an interview yesterday morning at the institute of Geographical Exploration. A few moments before, he had been on the train from Cleveland, and now, surrounded by a group of news and camera men, he was unable to get at the equipment sent from Texas last week, awaiting to be unpacked in preparation for the course on aerial photography which meets for the first time at four o'clock this afternoon...
...Edward Bausch invented the iris diaphragm shutter which made the snapshot camera practical. Later he made a deal with the late great Ernst Abbe, head of the Carl Zeiss Works of Jena, to make Zeiss prism binoculars in the U. S., trading Bausch manufacturing for Zeiss research facilities. The deal held good until the War, when Bausch perforce perfected the U. S. manufacture of fine optical glass, made 3,500 binoculars a week (besides periscopes, range finders, gun sight telescopes, searchlight mirrors). War demands mechanized the manufacture of microscopes. Prices fell from over $1,000 for hand-worked ones...
...first lecture will be given on Wednesday, February 15 at 8 o'clock by Captain A. W. Stevens, whose subject will be "Over Two Continents with an Aerial Camera." Captain Stevens has been a member of the Army Air Service for over 15 years, and has been active in aerial exploration...
...work of the photographic department consists in learning the technique of a camera and taking pictures of sporting events and teams, students and prominent people, and action shots of all sports...