Photograph by Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP/Getty Images. A tsunami is a series of ocean waves that sends surges of water, sometimes reaching heights of over 100 feet (30.5 meters), onto land.These walls of water can cause widespread destruction when they crash ashore.hotograph by Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP/Getty Images. A tsunami is a series of ocean waves that sends surges of water, sometimes reaching heights of over 100 feet (30.5 meters), onto land.
First thermographic camera In 1929, Hungarian physicist KÃ¡lmÃ¡n Tihanyi invented the infrared-sensitive (night vision) electronic television camera for anti-aircraft defense in Britain. The first thermographic cameras developed were infrared line scanners.
How to use a camera lucida. 1  The camera lucida is generally considered to have been invented by the English chemist W. H. Wollaston in 1806-07, although there is some speculation that it is a reinvention of a device described by Kepler some 200 years earlier.