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One of the earliest readers of microfilm was the Coddington Magnifier. Developed by Sir David Brewster, this magnifier was a "simple plano-convex lens of such thickness that the focus of its spherical curvature coincides with the flat surface of the lens. [2] On June 21, 1859, the first patent for a microfilm was issued to Rene Dargon in France.
Thus, while a "full page magnifier" based on a fresnel lens can span some 625 cm 2 (96.9 sq in) , it typically achieves no more than 1.4x magnification (advertised as "2x" if measured by area instead of the scale factor); an aspheric segment hand magnifier can achieve a scale factor in excess of two (area factor in excess of four) but typically ...
If you're using an e-reader, it's easy enough to increase the font size — but, sadly, physical books don't have that option. Well, we've got a solution: Save yourself the eyestrain and invest in ...
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. They usually provide between 1.8× and 6× ...
As the user moves the pointer or cursor the screen magnifier should track with it and show the new enlarged portion. If this tracking is jerky or flickers it is likely to disturb the user. Also, the pointer or cursor may not be the content of interest: for example, if the user presses a keyboard shortcuts that opens a menu, the magnified ...
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President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others in "the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history," the White House announced Thursday. The ...
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