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    An actinograph is an instrument for measuring or estimating the amount of light available, in terms of its ability to expose photographic film. That is...
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    prefix actin for scientific instruments, effects, and processes. The actinograph is a related device for estimating the actinic power of lighting for...
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    innovations was a photographic exposure estimation device known as an actinograph. H&D speed numbers, originally described in 1890, for film speed measurements...
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    meteorological scientist and university professor. He invented the "Robitzsch Actinograph", a type of pyranometer and wrote numerous scientific books and articles...
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    department at the Museum of Modern Art, acquired 900 cans of film from the Actinograph Corp. Bronx Biograph studio and laboratory facitlies, which was closing...
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    specialized slide rules for photographic applications. For example, the actinograph of Hurter and Driffield was a two-slide boxwood, brass, and cardboard...
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    assigned management of the property to one of its own subsidiaries, The Actinograph Corp., which held it until 1948. Martin Poll (on July 21, 1959, sworn...
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    film were discovered in a cache of 900 film canisters donated from the Actinograph Corp. Bronx Biograph studio and laboratory facilities from the contents...
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    light, and published Researches on Light in 1844. He also developed the actinograph in 1845. Hunt had a long-abiding interest in poetry as well. He regularly...
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