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第一单元 一： In 1980, Tim Samaras was working at the University of Denver Research Institute when he first saw the camera. Weighing 1,600 pounds and standing six feet high, the Beckman Whitley 192 camera was hard to Miss. The camera was used to take pictures of nuclear tests, and it was part of Samaras’ job to look after it. Samaras left the research institute and had other jobs, but he never forgot that camera. Twenty-five years later, he saw it was for sale. He bought it for just $600, the value of its metal par