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  2. Philippe Kahn - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Gregorio Y. Zara - Wikipedia

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    Gregorio Ynciong Zara (8 March 1902 – 15 October 1978) [1] was a Filipino engineer, physicist, a National Scientist, and inventor. He was known as the father of videoconferencing [2] for having invented the first two-way videophone.

  4. Timeline of photography technology - Wikipedia

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    1986 – Kodak scientists invent the world's first megapixel sensor. 1987 Canon releases the first camera for its fully electronic autofocus EF lens mount, the EOS 650 [20] Photoshop developed by Thomas and John Knoll; 1990 — Adobe Photoshop 1.0 released on February 19, for Macintosh exclusively. [21] [22] 1992 – Photo CD created by Kodak. [23]

  5. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    According to him, matter consisted of indestructible minutes particles called paramanus, which are now called as atoms. [24] 600 BC - 200 BC: The Sushruta Samhita shows an understanding of musculoskeletal structure (including joints, ligaments and muscles and their functions) (3.V). [25] It refers to the cardiovascular system as a closed ...

  6. History of photography - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Sun - Wikipedia

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    The Sun is 1.4 million kilometers (4.643 light-seconds) wide, about 109 times wider than Earth, or four times the Lunar distance, and contains 99.86% of all Solar System mass. The Sun is a G-type main-sequence star that makes up about 99.86% of the mass of the Solar System. [26]

  8. George Robert Carruthers - Wikipedia

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    In 1991, he developed a camera that was used on the STS-39 Space Shuttle mission. He also continued his work on the polar auroras with an instrument called the Global Imaging Monitor of the Ionosphere, which launched in 1999 on the ARGOS (satellite). [12] Carruthers retired from the Naval Research Laboratory in 2002 at the rank of senior ...

  9. Science of photography - Wikipedia

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    The fundamental technology of most photography, whether digital or analog, is the camera obscura effect and its ability to transform of a three dimensional scene into a two dimensional image. At its most basic, a camera obscura consists of a darkened box, with a very small hole in one side, which projects an image from the outside world onto ...