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Happy birthday to British #engineer, #mathematician, #physicist & #inventor Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923). I’ve shown her in my #linocut with a diagram of the dividers from her 1st of 26 (!) patents, one of her diagrams about the origin & growth of ripple marks & one of her diagrams of an electric arc lamp (a subject on which she literally wrote the textbook).
Born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was the 3rd 🧵https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/966154261
#printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #histsci #suffragette #mastoArt
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Happy birthday to British #engineer, #mathematician, #physicist & #inventor Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923). I’ve shown her in my #linocut with a diagram of the dividers from her 1st of 26 (!) patents, one of her diagrams about the origin & growth of ripple marks & one of her diagrams of an electric arc lamp (a subject on which she literally wrote the textbook).
Born Phoebe Sarah Marks, she was the 3rd of 8 children 🧵#printmaking #sciart #WomenInSTEM #histstm #suffragette #MastoArt
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✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Ludwig Blattner!
Ludwig Blattner, also known as Louis Blattner was an early pioneer of magnetic sound recording, television and telephony. Although wire tape recording existed, Blattner adapted the technology to steel tape, creating the first magnet tape recording. His new device, the Blattnerphone had far higher fidelity than other recording devices at the time and magnet tape was more reliable.
Blattner had other ideas that were ahead of their time, promoting using a specialised version of the Battnerphone to support audiobooks. He also outlined plans for using his new Blattnerphone with telephony equipment to create an answering machine.
Blattner also invented a system for capturing color picture which would later be called Keller-Dorian cinematography. While this system did not end up being very popular outside of a few films, in the 1920s, any color movies were a novelty.