enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Magnifying glass - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnifying_glass

    A pen seen through a magnifying glass Jim Hutton as detective Ellery Queen, posing with a magnifying glass. A magnifying glass is a convex lens that is used to produce a magnified image of an object. The lens is usually mounted in a frame with a handle. Beyond its primary function of magnification, this simple yet ingenious tool serves a ...

  3. List of Doc Savage characters - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doc_Savage_characters

    He wore spectacles with a magnifying lens for use in field work over his left eye, rendered sightless by a war injury. Later, Doc restored his full vision with an operation. Johnny thereafter carried the magnifying glass as a monocle suspended on a black ribbon pinned to his lapel, habitually twirling it idly by its ribbon when puzzled. Despite ...

  4. Monocle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocle

    The ends were pulled together, the monocle was placed in the eye orbit, and the ends were released, causing the gallery to spring out and keep the monocle in place. The third style of monocle was frameless. This consisted of a cut piece of glass, with a serrated edge to provide a grip and sometimes a hole drilled into one side for a cord.

  5. The 20 best gifts for parents of all ages - AOL

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/best-gifts-parents...

    This lighted magnifying glass has a stand and a swing arm to make it easier for parents to keep doing the crafts they love. The magnifying glass provides 10X magnification, and the base can be ...

  6. Bazaar Book Chat: "The Mighty Red" Reminds Us of the ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/bazaar-book-chat-mighty...

    This October, we read The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich, a novel that points a magnifying glass to a small town in North Dakota where a community of sugar farmers go through life—some haunted ...

  7. Flotsam (Wiesner book) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flotsam_(Wiesner_book)

    The final photo consists of a girl, who is holding a photo of a boy, who is holding a photo of a boy, who is holding a photo of a girl, and so on. Using his magnifying glass and microscope, he finds that the first is of a boy in old clothes from about a century ago waving.

  8. Magnification - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnification

    A magnifying glass, which uses a positive (convex) lens to make things look bigger by allowing the user to hold them closer to their eye. A telescope , which uses its large objective lens or primary mirror to create an image of a distant object and then allows the user to examine the image closely with a smaller eyepiece lens, thus making the ...

  9. Size Matters - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Size_Matters

    The album cover features a black and white photo of a young girl holding a magnifying glass. The photo was taken by Frances Murray. [ 3 ] Regarding the cover, Page Hamilton said in a 2005 interview, "the initial attraction was that it was a beautiful photo, this sort of innocence and open mindedness that kids have about things.