Word: stereopticon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down in Virginia's cedar-dotted Fort Belvoir, where the U. S. Army runs its only experimental camouflage laboratory, camoufleurs study how to outwit stereopticon, infrared and color photography from airplanes, try to solve such apparently insoluble problems as what to do when tanks are concealed in deep shadow and the sun goes behind a cloud; how to camouflage a truck, when an aerial camera can pick up a tireprint on the grass "almost from the stratosphere." They also experiment with dazzle v. solid color camouflage...
...wonder of life never paled for Professor Conklin. When he taught undergraduates and flashed images of microscopic plants and animals on a stereopticon screen, Conklin himself looked at them with open-mouthed awe. At the close of their senior year he always advised his students to get married the day after graduation. From 1908, he stayed at Princeton, ripening not only in years, but-as many other old-fashioned teachers do not-in wisdom and prestige...
...life. Running for Congress in 1902, Publisher Hearst, as President of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, arranged a monster pyrotechnical display on election night to celebrate the victory which he and Tammany expected and won. Thousands jammed into Madison Square to see his well-publicized show. On a stereopticon screen flashed a photograph of Congressman-elect Hearst while rockets screamed and zoomed. A spark set off a defective mortar which blew up, felled scores with scraps of flying steel. Next morning Hearst's American buried news of the disaster on page five, made no mention of its publisher...
...Astronomer Harlow Shapley never tires of trooping up & down the country telling people about the universe. Last week some 200 sky-lovers gathered at Detroit's Institute of Arts to hear tousle-haired Dr. Shapley discourse on "Exploring the Galaxy." This talk was to be illustrated with stereopticon slides. Few minutes before lecture time a man from the projection room scuttled up to the platform, confessed to the astronomer that the slides had been mislaid. Squirming and damp-browed. Dr. Shapley whispered hoarsely to the man who was about to introduce...
...Carl Zeiss Optical Works at Jena. This consists of two lens-studded globes mounted on each end of a cylindrical frame eleven feet long, is shaped like a huge dumbbell, looks like the grotesque plaything of an ogre. In effect the machine is simply an extremely versatile stereopticon. It shows the stars visible to the naked eye from anywhere on Earth, about 4,500 from any one spot; the sun, the moon and its phases, the planets, variable stars, comets, meteors, the Milky Way. It can rehearse a 24-hour maneuver of the celestial bodies in a few minutes...