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Specifically he was shooting helium atoms (alpha particles derived from radio active thorium) from a shuttered, camera-like box into a tube containing nitrogen and water vapor. The helium atoms traveling at a clip of 11,000 mi. per sec. smashed into the nitrogen atoms. The force of the impact caused the atoms to merge for an instant to form fluorine which immediately broke down, with explosive force, into hydrogen and oxygen...
Each & every child in the U. S. and Canada whose twelfth birthday comes this year is eligible to march into a corner drugstore or a Kodak Shoppe with its parent on or after May I and demand to be given, free, one special Model C "HawkEye" box camera and film-roll to match, made by George ("Kodak") Eastman or Rochester, N. Y. (TIME, April 14). The Hawk-Eye is sold to all persons over or under twelve this year for $1.25. If all the twelve-year-olds are honest and do not go from store to store to get more...
Occasion for this expansive gesture is the 50th anniversary of George Eastman's entry into the camera business. It will be "a token of appreciation to [those] . . . who have played so important a part." Also, says the Eastman announcement, it will be "a means of interesting hundreds of thousands more children in picture taking." In other words, Mr. Eastman's celebration will by no means be a purely-sentimental one. Film-rolls for the $1.25 Hawk-Eye cost 25¢, developing and printing six Hawk-Eye snapshots costs about 40¢ Eastman sales will be swelled by Eastman generosity since...
...worked to reproduce . . . [the] architecture in Venice . . . hailed the discovery of photography as a most important gift to education." Grace Goodhue Coolidge announced: "Instead of coming together to play games and eat ice cream and cake . . . each guest [at the Eastman birthday party] is to receive a golden anniversary camera and film by means of which he will be able to satisfy and develop his appreciation of the beautiful things of nature...
...tedious pastime. One wishing to go into the country for a few snapshots had first to procure the services of a mule. On the mule would be loaded: a tent for the preparation of the "wet plates" (which were sensitized in the tent and put, dripping, into the camera); vats for the chemical solutions; a tripod which would support a piano box: a camera nearly as large as a piano box: a helper...