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The shielded lamp, glass test slide and image dissector camera share one horizontal optical axis at bench height. The slide holder pivots inside a clamp fixed to the front workbench; Gardner’s closed fingers remain in contact with holder and clamp. The camera’s cloth-covered cable runs along the front bench, crosses the doorway at floor level and enters the receiver cabinet. The receiver cabinet rests fully on its rear bench; that bench’s four legs meet the rear floor. Farnsworth’s shoes meet the rear floor, his right fingers enclose the receiver knob and his left palm contacts the bench edge. The receiver bar and the slide stripe share the same tilt at this captured instant. Gardner is about 1.7 m tall; the glass slide is roughly 10 cm high and the receiver screen about 15 cm across. It is 7 September 1927: Rolled-sleeve white shirts, dark wool vests and trousers, narrow ties, leather shoes; hair and grooming appropriate to urban America in 1927.; Clear glass, matte and blued metal, varnished wood, plaster, Bakelite controls, cloth-covered copper cable, phosphor-coated receiver glass.; Experimental image-dissector camera tube, electronic signal cable, vacuum-tube receiver and shielded tungsten backlight; hand-built laboratory construction. The weak fuzzy phosphor bar is distinct enough to read and tilted exactly like the opaque stripe as Gardner rotates the optical input.", "style_description": {"aesthetics": "absorbed concentration at the instant an uncertain trace becomes responsive. 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