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WWII AAF STORAGE BOX/INSTRUCTIONS/LENS (for \"B8 Flying Goggle, POLAROID CORP.\") For Sale
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WWII AAF STORAGE BOX/INSTRUCTIONS/LENS (for \"B8 Flying Goggle, POLAROID CORP.\"):
$49.99
WWII A.A.F. STORAGE BOX, INSTRUCTION BOOK (8-page), REPLACEMENT LENSES, Green WG30, (Lot of 2) with protective cover sheets.
NOTE: The Goggles themself are NOT present!
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STORAGE BOX:Thehinged Box is made of heavy, khaki-painted cardboard for the U.S. Army Air Forces rubber-frame, single-piece acetate lens Type B-8 Flying Goggles. Box shows creased and and honest wear. ZERO personalized markings.
Printed on the top of the lid:GOGGLE; FLYING
TYPE B-8SPECIFICATION No. 3200STOCK No. 8300-336050ORDER No. W-33-038-AC-6240POLAROID* CORPORATIONPROPERTY AIR FORCESU.S. ARMY*T.M. REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.
And printed on the front, forward-facing side of the lid are the following instructions:WEAR AS LOW ON NOSE AS POSSIBLE FOR
MAXIMUM VISION. IF FLANGE INTERFERESWITH BREATHING OF CAUSES DISCOMFORTIT MAY BE TRIMMED TO SUIT.
+ Dimensions: 8-1/4\" x 4-1/2\" x 3-1/4\"+ Six of the vertical edged of the Box are steel-reinforced (2 on the lid; 4 on the box).+ Box shows customary wear, creases, bent corner from being carried in the cockpit of a fighter.+ This is NOT to be confused with the Box for the superficially similar, \"general purpose\" Goggle M1944.
INSTRUCTION BOOK:
+ The stapled 8-page INSTRUCTION BOOK (4\" x 8\") is printed in red, white, blue, and black with photo illustrations. Section headings read: CONTENTS OF THE GOGGLE KITHOW TO FIT AND WEAR THE GOGGLEHOW TO INTERCHANGE THE LENSES IN YOUR GOGGLE FRAMEHOW TO USE LENSES AS COVER-LENSESCARE OF LENSES
LENSES:
+ The two \"GREEN ANTI-GLARE (XG30) LENSES\" are in Mint NOS Unissued, condition free of scratches, warping, or crazing!+ Each acetate single-piece lens has the slotted opening with the metal edging to accommodate the elastic headband directly. (NOTE: The postwar and current general purpose goggle Lenses do not accept the headband.)*****The POLAROID CORPORATION of Cambridge, Massachusetts was one of two contractors awarded contracts for this vastly improved Type B-8 Flying Goggle (--the other being ROCHESTER OPTICAL). Research by Jeannette L. Nolan:Polaroid Corporation, also called Primary PDC, Inc., American manufacturer of cameras, film, and optical equipment founded by Edwin Herbert Land (1909–91), who invented instant photography.The company originated in 1932 as the Land-Wheelwright Laboratories, which Land founded with George Wheelwright to produce Land’s first invention, an inexpensive plastic-sheet light polarizer. By 1936 Land began to use polarized material in sunglasses and other optical devices, and in 1937 the company was incorporated under the Polaroid name. During the 1930s and ’40s Polaroid introduced a three-dimensional motion-picture process and polarized optical devices for military use. After WWII, Land began to research an instantaneous developing film, and in 1947 the company brought out the Polaroid Land camera, which delivered a finished sepia-toned print 60 seconds after exposure. In the 1950s the cameras were refined to produce black-and-white prints in 15 seconds; in the 1960s a color-developing process and film cartridges were introduced. The company introduced the compact Polaroid SX-70 in 1972. In addition to further technical refinements, the SX-70 combined both negative and positive prints in a single sheet. Instant motion pictures were introduced in 1977. *****
Research by Chelsey Parrot-Sheffer:
Edwin Herbert Land, (born May 7, 1909, Bridgeport, Conn., U.S.—died March 1, 1991, Cambridge, Mass.), American inventor and physicist whose one-step process for developing and printing photographs culminated in a revolution in photography unparalleled since the advent of roll film.
While a student at Harvard University, Land became interested in polarized light, i.e., light in which all rays are aligned in the same plane. He took a leave of absence, and, after intensive study and experimentation, succeeded (1932) in aligning submicroscopic crystals of iodoquinine sulfate and embedding them in a sheet of plastic. The resulting polarizer, for which he envisioned numerous uses and which he dubbed Polaroid J Sheet, was a tremendous advance. It allowed the use of almost any size of polarizer and significantly reduced the cost.With George Wheelwright III, a Harvard physics instructor, Land founded the Land-Wheelwright Laboratories, Boston, in 1932. He developed and, in 1936, began to use numerous types of Polaroid material in sunglasses and other optical devices. Polaroid was later used in camera filters and other optical equipment. Land founded the Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, Mass., in 1937. Four years later he developed a widely used, three-dimensional motion-picture process based on polarized light. During WWII he applied the polarizing principle to various types of military equipment. Land began work on an instantaneous developing film after the war. In 1947 he demonstrated a camera (known as the Polaroid Land Camera) that produced a finished print in 60 seconds. The Land photographic process soon found numerous commercial, military, and scientific applications. Many innovations were made in the following years, including the development of a color process. Land’s Polaroid Land cameras, which were able to produce developed photographs within one minute after the exposure, became some of the most popular cameras in the world. Land’s interest in light and co lour resulted in a new theory of color perception. In a series of experiments he revealed certain conflicts in the classical theory of color perception. He found that the color perceived is not dependent on the relative amounts of blue, green, and red light entering the eye; he proposed that at least three independent image-forming mechanisms, which he called retinexes, are sensitive to different colors and work in conjunction to indicate the color seen. Land received more than 500 patents for his innovations in light and plastics. In 1980 he retired as CEO of Polaroid but remained active in the field of light and color research by working with the Rowland Institute of Science, a nonprofit center supported by the Rowland Foundation, Inc., a corporation that Land founded in 1960. Under Land’s direction, Rowland researchers discovered that perception of light and color is regulated essentially by the brain, rather than through a spectrum system in the retina of the eye, as was previously believed.
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