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World’s Largest Camera in 1931<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. In 1931, the USA – never one to boast – announces that it has the “World’s Largest Camera” via the magazine “Science and Invention” in its January 1931 edition. \u00a0J G Barry of the American government’s “US Geological Survey” department in Washington DC is shown beside just part of the huge structure.<\/p>\n

Thanks to George Dunbar for sharing this tidbit of history with me. Check out the earlier post “electric avenue<\/a>” to track down this magazine – a retitled version of Electric Experimenter. Like today’s TV networks, the modest amount of editorial content attracted readers and subscribers, so important to its primary audience – the advertisers. Our own journal and newsletter, however DO NOT CARRY COMMERCIAL ADS and as such are 100% editorial content, fully devoted to their subscribers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. In 1931, the USA – never one to boast – announces that it has the “World’s Largest Camera” via the magazine “Science and Invention” in its January 1931 edition. \u00a0J G Barry of the American government’s “US Geological Survey” … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[809,398],"class_list":["post-18179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-ads","tag-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18183,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18179\/revisions\/18183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}