SANDY KOZEL

Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi
( April 25, 1874 – July 20, 1937

Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer,
known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio
transmission, development of Marconi’s law, and a
radio telegraph system. He is credited as the inventor
of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their
contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

Actor Alfredo James Pacino is 78 years old today.     

Al Pacino had his breakthrough as mobster Michael Corleone in the
Godfather trilogy and won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his
role as Frank Slade in the 1992 film Scent of a Woman. He is also
known for his starring roles in Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Heat (1995),
Scarface (1983), and Serpico (1973).

1992

Henry Bloch in 1945 with the Army Air
Corps as a navigator on B-17 bombers.

Henry Wollman Bloch (July 30, 1922 – April 23, 2019)

 
Henry Bloch (right) with brother Richard.

John Joseph (Jack) Nicholson

Popular actor Jack Nicholson is known for playing dark characters such as
Jack Torrance in “The Shining” (1980) and Frank Costello in “The Departed”
(2006). He won Academy Awards for Best Actor for his roles in “One Flew
Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975) and “As Good As it Gets” (1997) and for
Best Supporting Actor in “Terms of Endearment” (1983). He also received
praise for his roles in “Chinatown” (1974) and “About Schmidt” (2002) and
for portraying the Joker in 1989’s “Batman”. 

Jack Nicholson in “Chinatown”.

The Joker

SANDY KOZEL

On this day in 1895, Woodville Latham and his sons, Otway and
Gray, demonstrate their “Panopticon,” the first movie projector developed  in the United States.

Although motion pictures had been shown in the United States
for several years using Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, the films
could only be viewed one at a time in a peep-show box and not
projected to a large audience. Brothers Grey and Otway Latham,
the founders of a company that produced and exhibited films of
prize fights using the Kinetoscope, called on Woodville, their
father, and W.K.L. Dickson, an assistant in the Edison Lab, to
help them develop a device that would project life-sized images 
onto a screen in order to attract larger audiences.

 

  The Lathams: Otway, Woodville, Gray.