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Description:: Notes promising payment made to Normand Chandler from Lee de Forest for 3 separate payments of $100, $100, and $300. Lee de Forest called himself "the father of radio" and did a lot of work on audio recording used in motion pictures. Norman Chandler was a publisher for LA Times.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: At center, inventor Leon F. Douglass poses with his submarine camera while aboard the Santa Rosa. He sits side-saddle on a bench. The base of the camera rests in front of him on the bench. A long tube extends vertically from the camera and out-of-frame. Leon F. Douglass holds onto the apparatus with both hands as he looks to camera. A deck of the Santa Rosa stretches across the background.
Date:: May, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph is likely related to the article, "Chaffey Founders Paid Homage at Ceremony," Los Angeles Times, 20 Sept 1935: 8.
Date:: September 19, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Notes promising payment made to Normand Chandler from Lee de Forest for 3 separate payments of $100, $100, and $200. Lee de Forest called himself "the father of radio" and did a lot of work on audio recording used in motion pictures. Norman Chandler was a publisher for LA Times.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: At center, inventor Leon F. Douglass stands on a set of stairs aboard the Santa Rosa. The stairs span 2 of the ship's decks. Leon F. Douglass stands midway up the steps and holds his invention, a submarine camera. The camera extends from the top of Leon F. Douglass' shoulder and down towards the lower deck.
Date:: May, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Phillip Huyssen poses with an Ingo-bike, a type of eccentric-hub scooter he invented with his brother Prescott. Eccentric-hub scooters are powered by bouncing up and down on the platform to move the off-centered back wheel.
Date:: January 14, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Portrait photograph of Antoine Gazda, European inventor of defensive armament.
Date:: May 2, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photograph of Charles M. Fuller, inventor of the new Fuller Gold Dredge. Here he is smoking a cigar while standing next to his new giant machine.
Date:: September 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Notes promising payment made to Normand Chandler from Lee de Forest for a payment of $100. On the back of some other notes is witten: "2-26-34, pay to the order of Eldon Bisbee. Lee de Forest called himself "the father of radio" and did a lot of work on audio recording used in motion pictures. Norman Chandler was a publisher for LA Times.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: After struggling for a year with illness the vice president and production manager of the Emsco Derrick and Equipment Company passed away at 53 years of age. He is credited as inventing one of the first electrical vacuum cleaners in 1911.
Date:: January 29, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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