Roger Hayward (1899 – October 11, 1979) was an American artist, architect, optical designer and astronomer. He is the inventor of an early
Schmidt-Cassegrain camera that was patented in 1945. He was born on January 7, 1899, to mother, artist
Ina Kittredge (Phelps) Hayward and local businessman and time piece hobbyist Robert Peter Hayward. He was the grandson of American landscape artist
William Preston Phelps.
In December 1968 he wrote "
Blivet
An impossible trident, also known as an impossible fork, blivet, poiuyt, or devil's tuning fork,Brooks Masterton, John M. Kennedy"Building the Devil's Tuning Fork" ''Perception'', 1975, vol. 4, pp. 107-109 is a drawing of an impossible object (un ...
s: Research and Development" to ''
The Worm Runner's Digest
The ''Worm Runner's Digest'' (''W.R.D.'') was created in 1959 by biologist James V. McConnell after his experiments with memory transfer in planarian
A planarian is one of the many flatworms of the traditional class Turbellaria. It usually ...
'' in which he presented interpretations of impossible objects.
References
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US Patent 2,403,660, Schmidt-Cassegrain camera
External links
Roger Hayward - Renaissance Man
a biography of Roger Hayward written by his family members and published by Oregon State University
Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering c ...
A digitized collection of pastel drawings of molecules created by Hayward
20th-century American engineers
1899 births
1979 deaths
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