General Information

Serial #

112

Part Number

1

Total Parts

4

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

METAL CASING & PARTS; GLASS OPTICS

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

37.5 cm

Width

37.5 cm

Height

33.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Photography

Category

Still cameras

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Beckman Whitley

Country

United States of America

State/Province

California

City

San Carlos

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

CA. 1970 +

Canada

INSTRUMENT USED IN HIS SPECTROSCOPY LAB BY DISTINGUISHED BRITISH-CANADIAN PHYSICIST DR. R.W. NICHOLLS, WHO MOVED FROM UNIV. OF LONDON TO UNIV. OF WESTERN ONTARIO IN 1948, & THEN BECAME HEAD OF NEW PHYSICS DEPT. OF YORK UNIVERSITY IN 1965. ON HIS MOVE TO YORK, HE WAS PROVIDED WITHLABS & NEW EQUIPMENT.

Function

USED TO RECORD IMAGES IN EXPERIMENTS IN WHICH 303 RIFLE WAS FIRED AT STEEL TARGET & IMPACT RECORDED PHOTOGRAPHICALLY; EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED UNDER CONTRACT FOR & IN ASSOCIATION WITH CARDE (CANADIAN ARMAMENT RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ESTABLISHMENT).

Technical

EXAMPLE OF HIGH SPEED CAMERA. FOR THIS EXAMPLE, HIGH SPEED OF 10,000 FRAMES PER SECOND WAS NEEDED TO SEE DETAILS OF IMPACT OF BULLETS ON STEEL TARGET. SIMILAR CAMERAS WERE PROVIDED TO NASA FOR GEMINI MISSIONS, FOR USAF U-2 SPY PLANES & TO U.S. METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

LABEL ON CAMERA BACK READS "Beckman & Whitley [SCRIPT] INC./ SAN CARLOS, CALIF./ MOD. 326 SER. 112"; METALLIC LETTERING ON LENS HOUSING READS "Dynafax [SCRIPT] MADE BY WOLLENSAK ROCHESTER U.S.A./ FOR Beckman & Whitley [SCRIPT] INC. SAN CARLOS CALIF, U.S.A."; BLACK LETTERING ON LENS READS "STEINHEIL MUNCHEN cassar 1:3.5 807769".

Missing

UNKNOWN

Finish

GREY CRINKLE FINISH; BLACK & PLATED PAINTED PARTS; COLOURLESS TRANSPARENT GLASS.

Decoration

N/A