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The further away from the camera, the slower the speed. The multiplane effect is sometimes referred to as a parallax process. As a former director and animator of Walt Disney Studios, Ub Iwerks in 1933 invented the multiplane camera using four layers of flat artwork before a horizontal camera. [252] 1933 Frequency modulation
November 1 – Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri, Bengali-born mathematician. November 4 – Sir Charles K. Kao (died 2018), Chinese electrical engineer and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics. November 14 – Akira Endo (died 2024), Japanese biochemist. [25] December 22 – Thomas Stockham (died 2004), American electrical engineer and inventor
March 1933 German federal election: The Nazi Party gains 43.9% of the votes. March 7 – The real-estate trading board game Monopoly is invented in the United States. March 10 – The 6.4 M w Long Beach earthquake shakes Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 115 people.
1933: FM radio is patented by inventor Edwin H. Armstrong. 1933: Harry C. Jennings Sr. and his disabled friend Herbert Everest , both mechanical engineers , invented the first lightweight, steel, folding, portable wheelchair with their "X-brace" design.
December 5, 1933: Sloppy Joe's Bar opens in Key West, Florida (1986 photo) October 7 – The New York Giants (baseball) defeat the Washington Senators, 4 games to 1, to win their 4th World Series title. October 10 – A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed near Chesterton, Indiana, by a bomb. This is the first proven case of air sabotage in ...
Computer-related introductions in 1933 (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Products introduced in 1933" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
[1] April - In April 1933, the American inventor Philo Farnsworth submitted a patent application entitled Image Dissector, but which actually detailed a CRT-type camera tube. [2] This is among the first patents to propose the use of a "low-velocity" scanning beam and RCA had to buy it in order to sell image orthicon tubes to the general public. [3]
FM Radio was invented in 1933. [8] January 16 – With aircraft manufacturer René Couzinet on board, Jean Mermoz and crew make a non-stop flight across the South Atlantic Ocean from Saint-Louis, Senegal, to Natal, Brazil, in 17 hours 27 minutes in the Couzinet 70 Arc-en-ciel III.