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...Radioaktien-gesellschaft of Berlin, and a tall, super cilious radio engineer named Rudolph Moeller. After secret conferences and demonstrations, the Germans leased the Farnsworth system for Fernseh, backed by the Nazi Government. The price was not revealed, but as part payment Farnsworth got U. S. rights to Bosch and Zeiss patents controlled by Fernseh. These include a yellow receiving screen which is supposed to be superior to RCA-Victor's green screen. Fernseh got exclusive Farnsworth rights in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Switzerland, where it has subsidiaries...
...that you can follow with your own eyes. BUT, in return, you must observe strict discipline, you must consider yourselves my own soldiers. Not one word of all this is to be written until the battle ends." Right in front of the Marshal's headquarters stood the powerful Zeiss telescope, formidable as a cannon, that goat-bearded Marshal de Bono had brought to Africa. Through it the staff officers and war correspondents squinted for the next six days, saw the whole development of a modern military engagement as few men have ever done. About ten miles straight before them...
...bright pink retina of the eye can be photographed straight through the pupil with a Zeiss retinal camera. As reference points for classification, veins are chosen in preference to arteries because they are thicker and show up darker in photographs. The main vein which enters the eyeball with the optic nerve branches in two, and each branch again forks, providing four prominent veins meandering across the retina in irregular directions.* The entrance point of the optic nerve itself is taken as a point of reference. The distances and directions of the vein forks from this reference point provide coordinates which...
Astronomers have suggested that the Star of Bethlehem which guided the wise men to the Child Jesus was a nova or "new star," exploding like famed Nova Herculis of 1934. Last week Professor William Henry Barton Jr. of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, operating the Zeiss projector in the new Hayden Planetarium, ran celestial time backward and showed how the Star might have been a planetary conjunction. In 8 B.C. Saturn, Jupiter and Mars were very close together, as the projector showed on the vault of the Planetarium dome. When the projector was run slowly forward...
...Houston, Tex. month ago Scripps-HowarcTs up & coming Press bought its photographer, Francis ("Nig") Miller, a Zeiss Contax camera, turned him loose on the city to get "candid" shots. Bold little Cameraman Miller went about snapping the usual pictures of backstage doings and unwary citizens. His best layout was ''Houston at Lunch Time," displaying Houstonians munching salad, picking their teeth...