ONE HUNDRED MILLION FRAME-PER-SECOND CAMERA DEVELOPMENT AT ZEISS JENA

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2006
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 9, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY East G?rmany
SUBJECT One Hundred Million Frame-per4eoond Camera
Development at Zeiss. Jena
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DATE DISTR. 9 October 1052
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to In F'e'bruary 1952, the Berliner Technisches BBfro (BTB) of SAG Transmasch.,
formerly part of SAG Avtovelop notified VEB Carl Zeiss, Jena, that it was working
on the development of a special camera with an exposure time of one hundred
millionth of a second, Oberirigenieur (fnu)",,1ucherpfennig of BT'B pointed
out that the development was based on a paper by M n Sultanoff s "A 1004 000., 000
frame per second camera"*,, In order to develop the camera, B'I'B reouested.
Zeiss to produce a latticed screen (Gitter), of four by four inches with
lattice lines having a thickness of one ten thousandth of an inch and a.
screen constant of one hundredth of an inch. It was furthermore srectfied
that the lines were to be drawn on a metal layer and to be tearzed upon a
glass plate, The thickness of the lines was to be very exa.d.t?
2V Zeiss accepted the order for the screen,. In August 1952 the Zeiss Feinteilerei
was engaged in making the required screen under the direction of Meister (master
artisan) Orlamuende who was being assisted by several scientists of the Zeiss
Poinmess departments At that time the screen vas not yet completed
omment0 The article was published in The Review of Scientifio
Instruments, Volume XXI, Page 633, 1950.
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