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  2. Ibn al-Haytham - Wikipedia

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    Ancient optics and medieval optics were divided into optics and burning mirrors. Optics proper mainly focused on the study of vision, while burning mirrors focused on the properties of light and luminous rays. On the shape of the eclipse is probably one of the first attempts made by Ibn al-Haytham to articulate these two sciences.

  3. History of optics - Wikipedia

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    Laser science—research into principles, design and application of these devices—became an important field, and the quantum mechanics underlying the laser's principles was studied now with more emphasis on the properties of light, and the name quantum optics became customary. As laser science needed good theoretical foundations, and also ...

  4. John Logie Baird - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. Scottish inventor, known for first demonstrating television (1888–1946) John Logie Baird FRSE Baird in 1917 Born (1888-08-13) 13 August 1888 Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland Died 14 June 1946 (1946-06-14) (aged 57) Bexhill, Sussex, England Resting place Baird family grave in ...

  5. Timeline of telescope technology - Wikipedia

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    1270 (approx) — Witelo writes Perspectiva — "Optics" incorporating much of Kitab al-Manazir. [10] 1285–1300 spectacles are invented. [11] 1570 — The writings of Thomas Digges describes how his father, English mathematician and surveyor Leonard Digges (1520–1559), made use of a "proportional Glass" to view distant objects and people.

  6. Optics - Wikipedia

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    Today, the pure science of optics is called optical science or optical physics to distinguish it from applied optical sciences, which are referred to as optical engineering. Prominent subfields of optical engineering include illumination engineering , photonics , and optoelectronics with practical applications like lens design , fabrication and ...

  7. Oliver Hutchinson - Wikipedia

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    The earliest photograph of a television picture, Hutchinson in 1926 Hutchinson joined Baird's Television Limited in mid-1925 as business manager. [ 8 ] With English journalist Sydney Moseley , Hutchinson helped generate interest in the invention by writing positive press articles predicting it would become as successful as radio. [ 8 ]

  8. Narinder Singh Kapany - Wikipedia

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    Narinder Singh Kapany (31 October 1926 – 4 December 2020) was an Indian-American physicist famously known as "Father of Fiber Optics" . [2] [3] [4] Kapany is a pioneer in the field of fiber optics, known for coining and popularising the term. [5] [6] Fortune named him one of seven "Unsung Heroes of the 20th Century" for his Nobel Prize ...

  9. History of television - Wikipedia

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    Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a receiver back into an approximation of the original image.