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Asked a reporter: "Could this device be used to point a gun?'' Replied the officer: "Draw your own conclusions." It was generally understood that this latest military secret works by means of infra-red radiation. Emitted by ships and all other objects, this radiation occupies a place on the spectrum between visible light and radio waves, pierces much farther than light does through fog and haze...
...Congressman, Ham Fish, Jr., was the last to be taken over the bumps. He was termed "the nine-lived Congressman who sees not only over our heads, but through them and is in the infra-red district of politics. Mr. Little's presentation was the best handled part of the program and brought many a hearty laugh from the spectators...
...pressure. For it happens that my brother* has always had a great fondness for raw eggs, and when he was a youngster my mother was more than once startled by discovering that a box apparently full of eggs was really half empty! But it would undoubtedly be infra-dig for Scotland Yard or the Surete Generale even to entertain such a simple explanation! By the way, TIME in its article on L'Affaire d'Espionnage, March 26. repeats another old canard by saying that my father "Theodore Switz [was] a naturalized Russian." Actually my father was born...
...researcher already known for her spectroscopic measurement of sunspot temperatures, the identification followed a triangular cooperation. Dr. Moore took some especially clear laboratory spectra of phosphorus provided by Dr. Carl Clarence Keiss of the Bureau of Standards, compared them minutely with some very faint lines lately observed on the infra-red solar spectrum by Mount Wilson's Harold Delos Babcock, found that three lines coincided...
Awarded. To Flavel Manley Williams: a special gold medal of the American Museum of Safety; for his invention of the "fog camera" which, utilizing a special infra-red-sensitive film, can take photographs at great distances through fog (TIME, Jan. 15); in Manhattan...