HIGH-SPEED CAMERA
/ NEW YORK. Feb. 13. Electrical, engineers this week announced a camera shutter with a one-twenty-fifth of a millionth of a second. it is hoped that this shutter speed, which would allow 25 pictures to be taken in a millionth of a second, will enable scientists to learn more about explosions and other almost instantaneous happenings. The camera shutter is an opaque fluid which becomes transparent when an electric current is passed through it. Length of exposure depends on the voltage.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22887, 5 March 1949, Page 3
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