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John William Draper (May 5, 1811 – January 4, 1882) was an English scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer.He is credited with pioneering portrait photography (1839–40) and producing the first detailed photograph of the moon in 1840.
Charles F. Kettering: 1876 Electric ignition [34] 1980 James Hillier: 1915 Electron microscope [35] 1980 Lewis Hastings Sarett: 1917 Cortisone [36] 1980 Edwin Howard Armstrong * 1890 FM radio [37] 1981 Charles Stark Draper: 1901 Stabilizing gyroscopic [38] 1981 Chester Carlson: 1906 Xerographic printing [39] 1981 Harold Stephen Black: 1898 ...
Charles Draper may refer to: Charles Draper (musician) (1869–1952), British classical clarinetist; Charles Stark Draper (1901–1987), American scientist and engineer;
“The painting — commissioned by The Draper’s Company — is the first official portrait to be completed since His Majesty’s Coronation. ... His Majesty King Charles III/MEGA The first ...
Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (October 2, 1901 – July 25, 1987) was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". [2] He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, which was later spun out of MIT to become the non-profit Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]
In 1932 Charles Stark Draper, an MIT aeronautics professor, founded a teaching laboratory to develop the instrumentation needed for tracking, controlling and navigating aircraft. During World War II, Draper's lab was known as the Confidential Instrument Development Laboratory.
National Geographic logo. National Geographic is an American magazine that is noted for its cover stories and accompanying photography. [1] [2] [3] Throughout the 2010s National Geographic's cover stories showcased global historical events such as the American Civil War [4] and humanities treks to Mars. [5]