Jan Szczepanik
Jan Szczepanik | |
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| Died | April 18, 1926 (aged 53) |
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Jan Szczepanik (June 13, 1872 – April 18, 1926) was a Polish
inventor, with several hundred patents and over 50 discoveries to his name, many of which are still applied today, especially in the motion picture industry, as well as in photography and television. Some of his concepts helped the future evolution of TV broadcasting, such as the telectroscope (an apparatus for distant reproduction of images and sound using electricity) or the wireless telegraph, which greatly affected the development of telecommunications. He died in Tarnów in the Second Polish Republic
.
Biography
Szczepanik was born in the
Franz Joseph of Austria relieved him of mandatory military service fascinated with photosculpture – known also as photoplastigraphy – introduced to him by Szczepanik. It was based on an idea patented in 1859 by François Willème (1830–1905) for producing portrait sculpture using synchronized photo projections.[3]
The Emperor gave him a pair of pistols for that as a souvenir.
Before World War I, Szczepanik carried out experiments with photography and image projection, as well as with small format color film. He holds patents for a new weaving method, a system of obtaining tri-color photography rasters, and equipment for sound recording and playback.
Following the discoverer's idea,
Agfa corporation produced its Agfacolor reversible paper; color films were also made for the first time, projecting 24 frames per second. Szczepanik's more significant discoveries also include the colorimeter
(a color control tool), an electric rifle, and a color image weaving method, together with the automation of their production.
Szczepanik also worked on a moving wing aircraft, a duplex rotor helicopter, a dirigible, and a submarine. Mark Twain met Szczepanik and described him in two of his articles: "The Austrian Edison keeping school again" (1898) and "From The Times of 1904" (1898).
See also
- List of Poles
- Timeline of Polish science and technology
References
- ^ MOwT (2013). "Jan Szczepanik". Wirtualna czytelnia - Varia. Muzeum Okręgowe w Tarnowie. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
- ^ a b Andrzej Pilipiuk, Paweł Wiliński (2005) Zapomniany geniusz Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine (Forgotten genius). (in Polish) Retrieved June 20, 2012.
- ^ "Photosculpture". Oxford Companion to the Photograph. Answers.com © Oxford University Press. 2005. Retrieved June 23, 2012.
- Entry at Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archived 2009-04-03 at the Wayback Machine Poland.gov.pl website (either the main source in 2004, or a mirror from 2008).
External links
Media related to Jan Szczepanik at Wikimedia Commons- Szczepanik on Timeline of Historical Film Colors with primary and secondary sources.
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