CAMERA “BENDS” SUNLIGHT
A sextant camera to help Antarctic flyers to find the South Pole is to be used by Commander Byrd’s expedition. By the operation of a lever when the sun Is in the “finder,” the sextant camera records an accurate reading of the sun. The operator thus has a record of his position on the earth's surface at the moment he took the picture. Prisms catch the sunlight and “bend” it by a process described by experts as the folding and wrapping of light into one very small package.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 499, 31 October 1928, Page 11
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91CAMERA “BENDS” SUNLIGHT Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 499, 31 October 1928, Page 11
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