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...effectiveness of the method in use at Harvard for recording posture has earned the commendation of Physical Training authorities throughout the country, but few men realize that the intricate camera, known as the Silhouettograph was invented, after considerable experimentation, by Mr. Norman W. Fradd, of the Department of Physical Education...
...actual expense of the entire operation by the Silhouetteograph is about one cent or less per picture, depending on the size. Furthermore, the time required for taking the picture is very short, and a particular advantage of this camera, according to Mr. Fradd, is the psychological effect of showing the student an accurate silhouette of his body in which defects in posture are plainly indicated, so that they stimulate a desire for improvement...
Amid a crowd of 10,000 Chinese, gathered to watch the parades and incense-burning, Mr. Six produced the inevitable occidental camera and started to take snapshots. The devotees of Mercy mobbed the amateur photographer and beat him senseless. Chinese Christian converts from a neighboring missionary school rescued Mr. Six by kidnapping the leaders of the mob and threatening them with death if the antiforeign rioting did not cease...
...inevitable occidental camera...
...camera that works eight times faster than the swiftest known camera of today, and can take pictures by starlight alone, is the invention of Professor James Worthington, an astronomer of Carmel, Calif. He is interested chiefly in astronomical photography, but his achievements may revolutionize commercial and motion picture photography. In good moonlight a one-second exposure with Worthington's lens will give as perfect detail as a half-hour exposure with present-day cameras. His plates show shadows cast by starlight. The secret is no new discovery, he says, but "a simple fundamental," taught by Euclid long before photography...