The two photocells are linked to the Tree: the Pre-Stage, and the Stage lights. When the car inches forward and blocks the first photocell, the Pre-Stage light comes on, indicating that the driver is close to the starting line. Most tracks have a rollout, or distance between the Pre-Stage and Stage beams of 6-8.
Batten disease is named after the British pediatrician Frederick Batten, who first described it in 1903. Also known as Spielmeyer-Vogt-SjÃ¶gren-Batten disease, it is the most common form of a group of disorders called neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (or NCLs).
My grandfather, William J. BADTEN, born Sept. 1895, was a World War One veteran and postal carrier, and was married to Mabel RETON, born Aug. 7, 1896.