The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-03
THIS IS HOW THE
HOUSE FLY FLIES
0epreSSeS His Wings and AL
ways Jumps Before
BuZZing.
CAUGHT BY PHOTOGRAPHER
INSECTS ON WING AND SHOWS
PLANTS GROWING.

Paris, Aug 2-The latest discovery
is a method OF taking photographs at
the almost incredible speed of 1000
pictures a second. The inventor is
Louis Bull. a young American scientist
who Is settled in Paris. BY this discoV-
cry il is possible 70 look at many nat
ural processes which before this could
only be guessed at.
For instance, il is possible now TO
watch plants growing, and see every
movement of the most rapid insects.
This science is called ultra-rapid cine
photography. II is distinct from ultra
microscopic cinematography. another
recent invention, by which it is posi-
bic TO see the movements OF microbes
and other things invisible TO the naked
eye.
This Is How a Fly Flies.
The new ultra-rapid einematOgraph
shows how a fly or bee or other flying
insect uses its wings What is to the
ordinary person a mere confused buzz
ing Of wings becomes a clear and or
Derby process with this machine. one
series Of these pictures shows nineteen
pictures OF an ordinary house fly fly
ing. The movements represented here
occurred in the space of 11O5th OF a
second OF time, and yet each one IS
seen more plainly than if an elephant
were walking slowly before the OBJ
server.
Anyone can see from these pictures
that the fly does not start flying by
buZZing his wings. as most people sup
pose. He depresses his wings very
much as a human aviator depresses
the planes Of his flying machine before
starting Then the fly gives himself a
take off, with his legs, and when he
is fairly in the air his wings start
buzzing.
Watching a Bullet Break Bubble.
Perhaps the most curious series OF
ultra rapid cinematography pictures IS
that which shows the course or rifle
bullet through a soap bubble the
movements here depicted in II pictures
occupied exactly 1.l25th OF second
You see the bullet approaching the bub-
BILE. II pushes the tenuOus skin or the
bubble inward for some distance before
it breaks It.
At last the bullet pushes through the
| skin. but the skin reforms behind the
bullet and falls back into its Original
position before the bullet reaches the
| farther side OF the bubble, When the
| bullet passes out Of that side IL leaves
| a hole and that destroys the bubble
| You see il fade away 10 a drop or soapy
| water.
How the Photographs Are Taken.
! Ii is interf sting TO know the details
| of the methods BY which these photo
! graphs are taken. To photograph ar
/ insect in flight il is necessary 70 ar
/ range things so that he viii fly Volun-
| tarily across the Photographic field
With this object the device is placed
near a window. so that the insects
/ which are nearly always attracted TO-
/ ward the light. fly in that direction.
! IL is indispensable to release the
| shutter at the precise moment when the
| creature traVerses the Photographic
field The system which succeeds wei
/ with ordinary flies, consists in keeping
/ the insect captive by holding one ZOO
/ in an electro magnetic clamp connected
| with the circuit that controls che shut
| ter AS soon as the insect starts Il
/ fly II puts the apparatus into opera
| ton.