AUSTIN, TEXAS â Michael Conway, president of global channel development for the Starbucks Coffee Co., summed up his job succinctly when he said, âWhile most people think the majority of coffee purchasing and consumption occurs in cafes, actually the opposite is true.
Who invented the digital camera? This device was first created by Eastman Kodak engineer Steven Sasson in 1975. The camera used a solid state CCD image sensor chips manufactured by Fairchild Semiconductor. The device weighed 3.6 kilograms and it took above 20 seconds to capture an image.
An interesting forerunner to the movie camera was the machine invented by Francis Ronalds at the Kew Observatory in 1845. A photosensitive surface was drawn slowly past the aperture diaphragm of the camera by a clockwork mechanism to enable continuous recording over a 12- or 24-hour period.