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...Camouflage paints for storage tanks and factories, which repel infra-red heat from the sun almost as well as metallic and light-colored paints, are now available. Made in dull, earthen colors, the new paints do not show in infra-red photographs made by observation planes...
Most of the department's work, however, deals with the less spectacular, if more exacting, work of restoring masterpieces as nearly as possible to their original condition. Where the original work of the artist has been painted over, these reworkings are detected by X-ray, ultraviolet, and infra-red rays in Alan Burrough's Department of X-Ray and are removed and the blank spaces carefully filled in to resemble the original. Actual paint, however, is never retouched or covered with new work. Perhaps the most ticklish job of this type was done in 1923, although not by the Fogg...
...Some like compresses cold, some like them hot. Dr. Grove prefers infra-red lamps, electric pads or hot-water bottles applied to forehead or cheeks. Inhalation of medicated steam, especially if it contains benzoin, is valuable...
...Among new developments to come: instruments to detect infra-red rays given off by airplane motors, thus help to locate enemy aircraft...
Recent advances in photographic technique have enabled Cunningham and his co-workers for the first time to take photographs of the infra-red end of the spectrum and to measure the absolute brightness of the comet...