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...fine arts professor and a space scientist and systems engineer, Bechis lists editor, researcher, inventor, musician, entrepreneur, scholar, athlete and math whiz among his past professions...
...commercial license fees--and many millions more in government contracts--for a new ultra-wide-band "pulse" radar that can peer through walls and spot Stealth planes. Former Livermore researcher THOMAS MCEWAN filed his first patent for "micropower impulse radar" in 1993, for which he was named "Distinguished Inventor...
...sailor, explorer, inventor, best-selling author, prizewinning filmmaker, passionate environmentalist and canny businessman. Instantly recognizable by his pipe, red cap and gaunt silhouette, Jacques-Yves Cousteau--a.k.a. "Captain Planet"--was arguably the century's best known, most popular Frenchman. For generations of scuba divers--and millions of armchair explorers--he created a crystal-clear window for the unseen world beneath the waves...
...those inclined to think of our fading century as an era of the common man, let it be noted that the inventor of one of the century's greatest machines was a man called Phil. Even more, he was actually born in a log cabin, rode to high school on horseback and, without benefit of a university degree (indeed, at age 14), conceived the idea of electronic television--the moment of inspiration coming, according to legend, while he was tilling a potato field back and forth with a horse-drawn harrow and realized that an electron beam could scan images...
...childhood his reaction to television was 'There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet.' " So we may end Farnsworth's story by saying that he was not only the inventor of television but also one of its earliest and most perceptive critics...