Cutting glass at the Leitz factory, 1979

By Joe Gromelski
Published: July 10, 2011

Gus Schuettler ©Stars and Stripes
Wetzlar, Germany, April, 1979: Water flies as a diamond-studded, high-speed saw blade prepares to cut into a block of glass at the Ernst Leitz optical firm's Wetzlar plant. The company began producing Leica cameras and Leitz lenses, recognized as some of the finest in the world, in the early part of the 20th century.

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