Ever since his days at the University of California at San Diego in the late 1990s‚ Nicholas Woodman wanted a way for him and his surfing buddies to capture their exploits without having to take turns sitting on shore with a camera and telephoto lens. “No surfer wants to be the photographer‚ especially when the waves are good‚” he says. Woodman‚ 36‚ eventually decided to solve the problem and founded GoPro in 2002. GoPro makes a small‚ durable‚ lightweight (just 3.3 ounces) camcorder and special
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Nicéphore Niépce History of photography camera obsucra (Leondardo Da Vinci) Photography was not invented earlier then the 1830’s. It started with two distinct scientific processes but not until they were combined together did it make photography possible. The first process was ‘camera obscura’ which is the dark room; the dark room had been in existence for at least four hundred years. There is a drawing of a ‘camera obscura’ (dark room) by Leonardo Da Vinci‚ dated 1915.The second process was
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The History of Indian Economic History Prasannan Parthasarathi May 2012 Introduction While there is a long tradition of both historical and economic thinking in the Indian subcontinent‚ modern economic history may be dated from the late nineteenth century. From the early pioneers of economic history‚ including Mahadev Govind Ranade and Romesh Chander Dutt‚ the field reached a high level in India‚ giving rise to a stellar set of practitioners and an impressive body of scholarship‚ ranging from Irfan
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Alexander Lee GD 150 9/2/2010 History of Animation Animation began to develop in 1824 when a British physician‚ named Peter Mark Roget‚ described the concept of “persistence of vision‚” which means that the pictures appear to create the illusion of motion as we quickly look and retain them one by one.1 In the 1870s‚ Eadweard Muybridge started his photographic gathering of animals and humans in motion.2 While he was in the West Coast‚ he experimented and recorded the movements of a galloping
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about to happen. When the girl runs off with the drunken boy the scene starts to get darker and quieter as they go further and further away from where all the people are. The girl runs into the water and the drunken boy lies down on the beach. The camera then points at the girl who is all alone in the water and there is no sound or light at all which makes the audience think that something bad is about to happen. This is really helpful to build tension and to begin putting fear in the mind’s of the
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audiences‚ storyboards‚ and scores. They preceded film by thousands of years. Much terminology later used in film theory and criticism applied‚ such as mise en scène. Moving visual images and sounds were not recorded for replaying as in film. The camera obscura was pioneered by Alhazen in his Book of Optics (1021)‚[2][3][4] and was later perfected near the year 1600 by Giambattista della Porta. Light is inverted through a small hole or lens from outside‚ and projected onto a surface or screen‚ creating
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Ramabai Ranade The late Smt. Ramabai Ranade - whose birth centenary was celebrated in India on January 25‚ 1962 - was born in January 1862 in a small village in Sangli District near Pune. Her father had not imparted education to her. Educating Girls was a taboo in those days. As a little girl of 11 years she was married to Shri Mahadev Govind Ranade‚ a pioneer in the social reform movement. He devoted all his apparel time to educate her in face of all opposition of the women in the house and helped
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What is purpose of education? People are provided the education in their life time. School teaches the importance of the education to the students and parents and grandparents also teach the importance of the education. We are provided school education‚ home education and education of life. We are educated to success in our lives‚ to be honest and upright people and to increase their knowledge. We are provided education to success in our lives and to make our dreams to be true
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In the 1920s‚ many Americans were trying to achieve the infamous “American Dream.” The dream was to be rich‚ successful‚ happy‚ and one of the social elites. However‚ even though this was the dream for Americans in the 1920s‚ the general standard has changed over the years into the present time. Since the 1920s‚ the dream of putting a high emphasis on an individualistic and materialistic life has evolved into a present day dream of working hard‚ holding a well-paying job‚ and raising a family. The
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eDWIN cHADWICK AND tHE public health system What part did Edwin Chadwick play in bringing about changes in public Health Provision? Edwin Chadwick was born in Manchester on 24th January 1800. His father encouraged him to read books by radicals such as Tom Paine. Chadwick went to London to study Law but his personal finances were limited. He made money by writing essays for publications such as the ‘Westminster Review’. Despite his training in Law‚ his essays were usually on scientific principles
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