Dr. Nathan Augustus Cobb, technologist of the Dept. of Agric., who has discovered that by the use of a piece of glass he can invoke the aid of the sun in making microscopic studies of minute objects. Until this glass was used, the sun blurred instead of clarified the object
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- Date
- 1924
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 7,752 × 10,008 pixels
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