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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
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DeGrane, Lloyd, 1948-
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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. Date of photograph is… more
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Leonard Reiffel performing an experiment using Armour Research Foundation's nuclear reactor, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1956
Year:
1956
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Photograph of Leonard Reiffel conducting an experiment using Armour Research Foundation's nuclear reactor, the first privately-owned nuclear reactor in the world, located in the ARF Physics and Electrical Engineering Research Building. From the attached caption: "Slave manipulator ion the 'hot' cell of new nuclear reactor at Armour Research Foundation of Illinois Institute of… more
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Nuclear reactor sign, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1955-1956
Year:
1955 to 1956
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Photograph of a sign announcing Armour Research Foundation's nuclear reactor, the first privately-owned nuclear reactor in the world, located in the ARF Physics and Electrical Engineering Research Building. Photographer unknown, probably from the staff of Tech News, the student newspaper. more
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