{"id":18965,"date":"2020-11-29T04:15:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T08:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=18965"},"modified":"2020-11-27T23:31:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T03:31:39","slug":"silver-and-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/silver-and-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"silver and glass"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Silver and Glass – click on photo to see article<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. George Dunbar came across this article on Kodak’s work on films and lenses. It appeared as the article “Brains of Sliver — Eyes of Glass” in the April 1930 edition of Science and Invention magazine.<\/p>\n

The article covers Kodak’s research into film and lenses and its contribution to Kodak’s famous little VP cameras<\/a>. The film is the now notorious Nitrate (nitro-cellulose) based film<\/a> while the huge lens is said to be the largest ever ground in the USA. The lens, for the Army Air service, was likely for use on \u00a0an aerial camera<\/a>, perhaps used to map enemy terrain<\/a> just over a decade later in WW2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. George Dunbar came across this article on Kodak’s work on films and lenses. It appeared as the article “Brains of Sliver — Eyes of Glass” in the April 1930 edition of Science and Invention magazine. The article covers Kodak’s … 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":[3420,14,401,3422,3421,3419],"class_list":["post-18965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-aerial-lens","tag-film","tag-lens","tag-nitro-cellulose","tag-science-industry","tag-vp-camera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18965","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=18965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18969,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18965\/revisions\/18969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}