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2. Grandma's Reading Glass - Wikipedia

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   Grandma's Reading Glass is a 1900 British silent trick film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a young boy who borrows a huge magnifying glass to focus on various objects. The film was shot to demonstrate the new technique of close-up .

3. Magnifying glass - Wikipedia

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   Magnifying glass on an arm lamp. The magnification of a magnifying glass depends upon where it is placed between the user's eye and the object being viewed, and the total distance between them. The magnifying power is equivalent to angular magnification (this should not be confused with optical power, which is a different

4. Reading stone - Wikipedia

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   The invention of reading stones is often credited to Abbas ibn Firnas in the 9th century, [1] although the regular use of reading stones only began around 1000 AD. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Early reading stones were manufactured from rock crystal (quartz) or beryl as well as glass, which could be shaped and polished into stones used for viewing.

5. Magnification - Wikipedia

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   The postage stamp appears larger with the use of a magnifying glass. Stepwise magnification by 6% per frame into a 39-megapixel image. In the final frame, at about 170x, an image of a bystander is seen reflected in the man's cornea. Magnification is the process of enlarging the apparent size, not physical size, of something.

6. Dome magnifier - Wikipedia

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   A dome magnifier is a dome-shaped magnifying device made of glass or acrylic plastic, used to enlarge words on a page or computer screen. They are plano-convex lenses : the flat (planar) surface is placed on the object to be magnified, and the convex (dome) surface provides the enlargement.

7. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The Huffington Post

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   Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...