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A Grand Gold Medal awarded at the Paris Exhibition, in 1867. Royal Society gold Medal in 1885. Society of Arts Albert Gold Medal in 1897. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, presented by Napoleon III for his inventions and discoveries in 1860, [42] granting him the title "Commander of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour". He was also awarded:
He considered his leadership towards the development of integral instant color photography – the SX-70 film and camera – to be his crowning achievement. Although he led the Polaroid Corporation as a chief executive, Land was a scientist first and foremost, and as such made sure that he performed "an experiment each day".
First patent on foil electret microphone by G. M. Sessler and J. E. West (pages 1 to 3) West was born on February 10, 1931, in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia as the elder of two children to Samuel Edward and Matilda West. He was born in his maternal grandfather's house because the local hospital would not admit Black people.
Gold had also contributed to the Apollo program by designing the Apollo Lunar Surface Closeup Camera (ALSCC) (a kind of stereo camera) used on the Apollo 11, 12, and 14 missions. [ 26 ] [ 41 ] In the 1970s and 1980s, Gold was a vocal critic of NASA's Space Shuttle program, deriding claims that the agency could fly 50 missions a year or that it ...
Mark Rober is an American YouTuber, engineer, inventor, and educator.He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets.Before he became a YouTuber, Rober was an engineer with NASA for nine years, where he spent seven years working on the Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [3] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [4]
Scientists have completed the construction of the world’s biggest camera after two decades of work.. The 3,200 megapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera weighs 3 metric tons and ...
Lev Sergeyevich Termen [a] (27 August [O.S. 15 August] 1896 – 3 November 1993), better known as Leon Theremin was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced.