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Kahn working on the first camera phones June 11, 1997, Santa Cruz, CA: Image taken by Kahn after his daughter's birth July 1, 2010, Double Jeopardy clue. Kahn has founded four software companies: Borland, founded in 1982 (acquired by Micro Focus in 2009), Starfish Software, founded in 1994 (acquired by Motorola in 1998, and subsequently Google in 2011), LightSurf Technologies, founded in 1998 ...
That first cell phone began a fundamental technology and communications market shift to making phone calls to a person instead of to a place. [ 6 ] [ 19 ] Bell Labs had introduced the idea of cellular communications in 1947, but their first systems were limited to car phones which required roughly 30 pounds (12 kg) of equipment in the trunk. [ 21 ]
Claude Shannon (1916–2016), founder of information theory and modern cryptography, invented Minivac 601, and co-invented the first wearable computer (with Edward O. Thorp) Ugo Cerletti (1877–1963), together with Lucio Bini (1908–1964), Italy – Electroconvulsive therapy; Leona Chalmers (c. 1937), U.S. – modern menstrual cup
Decades ago, explorer Bradford Washburn hit bad weather and abandoned his camera gear on the remote Walsh Glacier. A pro skier set out to find it. A camera from a 1937 explorer was discovered on a ...
Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, [2] FRPS, Hon.MRI (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor, [4] best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and the retinex theory of color vision, among other
In the 1830s, the English scientist William Henry Fox Talbot independently invented a process to capture camera images using silver salts. [ 12 ] : 15 Although dismayed that Daguerre had beaten him to the announcement of photography, he submitted a pamphlet to the Royal Institution entitled Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing on 31 ...
In 1989 Sasson and Robert Hills made the first DSLR camera, which wasn't a jury-rigged prototype, but one similar to the ones on the market today. It used memory cards and compressed the image.
Alexander Graham Bell (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ. ə m /, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) [4] was a Scottish-born [N 1] Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.