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Marvin Camras, ca. 1950
Year:
1947 to 1953
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Photograph of Chicago native and Illinois tech alumnus Marvin Camras, who created an innovative magnetic recording head during his undergraduate years that improved sound quality by impressing a recording symmetrically on a wire by the gap of air between the wire and the head. His research led to developments that underlie many modern recording and communication techniques. Photographer unknown.… more
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Marvin Camras, ca. 1950s
Year:
1950 to 1959
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Description
Photograph of Chicago native and Illinois tech alumnus Marvin Camras, who created an innovative magnetic recording head during his undergraduate years that improved sound quality by impressing a recording symmetrically on a wire by the gap of air between the wire and the head. His research led to developments that underlie many modern recording and communication techniques. Photographer unknown.… more
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Marvin Camras, ca. 1990
Year:
1990 to 1995
Contributors
DeGrane, Lloyd, 1948-
Description
Photograph of Chicago native and Illinois tech alumnus Marvin Camras, who created an innovative magnetic recording head during his undergraduate years that improved sound quality by impressing a recording symmetrically on a wire by the gap of air between the wire and the head. His research led to developments that underlie many modern recording and communication techniques. Date of photograph is… more
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Admiral Richard Byrd, Thomas Poulter, and the Snow Cruiser crew, 1939
Year:
1939
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Photograph of the Antarctic Snow Cruiser crew (Left to right: Sargent Felix Ferranto, Dr. F. Alton Wade, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, CPO Charls Meyer, Dr. Thomas C. Poulter) in front of one of the Snow Cruiser's ten-foot-tall Goodyear tires. The Snow Cruiser was designed by Armor Research Foundation Scientific Director Thomas C. Poulter, constructed by ARF, and taken on Richard Byrd's… more
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