Techies and 3D

[P3D Dr. George A. Themelis <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>How could 3D have happened had it not been for a techie?
>Brenda

I think photography was invented by chemists.  The first
stereoscopic images (drawings) were commissioned by a physicist
(Wheatstone, 1938).  The first stereoscopic photographs were 
commissioned by a physicist and taken by chemists.  It was a
scientist that worked hard to make stereo popular (Brewster).
An engineer dreamed and designed the Stereo Realist (Rochwite)
and an engineering firm marketed it (David White).  Today,
the President of the Detroit Stereographic Society is a 
computer programmer and the President of the OhiO Stereo
Photographic Society is an engineer (the VP is a retired
engineer). Paul Wing is a retired engineer (a well-known one).
H. Lee Pratt (past Chairman of the PSA Stereo Division) is
a PhD "rocket scientist".

Hey, it is techies all the way through!

Curiously, Kodachrome was invented by two musicians.

I still don't know what photographers have to do with it! :-)

-- George Themelis

"You don't need a PhD to get started in stereo photography,
but it helps if you have one!" (DrT, "Famous Quotes")

"It was the beginning of 1839, about six months after the
appearance of my memoir in the Philosophical Transactions,
that the photographic art became known, and soon after, at
my request, Mr. Talbot, the inventor, and Mr. Collen [one of
the first cultivators of the art] obligingly prepared for me
stereoscopic Talbotypes of full-size statues, buildings, and
even portraits of living persons."  [Wheatstone, 1852]


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