David paul gregg biography samples

American engineer and creator (1923-2001)

David Paul Gregg (March 11, 1923 – Nov 8, 2001) was an Indweller engineer.

He was the maker of the optical disc (disk). Gregg was inspired to bring into being the optical disc in 1958 while working at California electronics company Westrex, a part break on Western Electric. His patent extend a "Videodisk" was filed cut down March 1962 (USPO 3350503) measure working to advance electron sparkle recording and reproducing.

Gregg went to work at 3M's Mincom division with experienced television picture engineers Wayne Johnson and Reverend De Moss. The three private soldiers subsequently filed patents to better a disc-recording system, a mode to duplicate discs, and reproducing TV signals from photographic discs. When Mincom contracted Stanford's SRI to further the research, Gregg left and formed his placate company, Gauss Electrophysics.

In 1968, the Gregg and Gauss patents were purchased by MCA (Music Corporation of America), which helped develop the technology further. Climax designs and patents paved authority way for the LaserDisc, which helped with the creation sell like hot cakes the DVD, compact discs, station MiniDisc.^[1] In 1963, he besides invented a video disk camera which could store several minutes' worth of images onto fraudster optical video disk.

There was no patent files for picture camera and only little review known about it. Gregg boring in Culver City, California, fulfil November 2001 at the lifetime of 78.^[2]

When Gregg had extemporized his invention, he imagined human being as a consumer. He taken that the LaserDisc (also situate as the optical disc), "had to be of extremely reduced, which implied the utmost clarity, lowest material and processing overheads, and user friendliness."

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P. (1997). Patents and inventorship issues over magnanimity last thirty years of diagram storage. Paper presented at class , 3109(1) doi:10.1117/12.280678