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We have now jumped to a height of 50,000 meters or 50 kilometers, that is more
than 30 miles, and we notice a second effect of our jumps: not only are all lengths
we see reduced tenfold each time, but the area which comes into our field of
vision increases a hundredfold. So the above illustration covers a square 15 kilometers
on a side, and we see Bilthoven (1) as a suburb of Utrecht (2). A dotted
wavy line symbolizes a radio wave of 298 meters wave length reaching Bilthoven
from the transmitter southwest of Utrecht, called "Hilversum" after the town (3)
where its studios are. The 1.5-centimeter square in the middle gives again, as
it has done each time, a reduced representation of the preceding illustration. As
this illustration contains a photograph of a detailed plan of Bilthoven, it just
shows the houses, though very minutely.
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1 cm. in picture = 105 cm. = 1,000 m. = 1 km. | Scale = 1:100,000 = 1:105 |
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