Joseph Saxton

Joseph Saxton

male, deceased (1873)
marine chronometer, National Inventors Hall of Fame, faraday, inventor, American, huntingdon…comparator
Joseph Saxton (1799-1873) was an American inventor, born at Huntingdon, Pa. He went to Philadelphia in 1817 and while there invented a machine for...
Ralph Flanders

Ralph Flanders

male, deceased (1970)
Worcester Reed Warner Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineer, machine, Industrialist, comparator, United States Senator
Ralph Edward Flanders was an American mechanical engineer, industrialist and Republican politician from the state of Vermont. Flanders was born in...
Henry L. Giclas

Henry L. Giclas

male, deceased (2007)
Astronomer, asteroid, Asteroid discoverer, American, Apollo asteroid, Amor asteroid…blink comparator
Henry Lee Giclas (December 9 1910 - April 2 2007) was an American astronomer. He worked at Lowell Observatory using the blink comparator, and hired...
Ben Mayer

Ben Mayer

male, deceased (2000)
Astronomer, RTMC Astronomy Expo, Projection Blink Comparator, Riverside Telescope Makers Conference, blink comparator, American Association of Variable Star Observers
Ben Mayer (? - 2000) was an amateur astronomer perhaps best known for the invention of the Projection Blink Comparator (PROBLICOM). This low-cost...

Frank Elmore Ross

male, deceased (1960)
University of California, E. E. Barnard, photographic emulsions, lenses, Elara, photographic lens…blink comparator
Frank Elmore Ross (April 2,1874 - September 21,1960) was an American astronomer and physicist. He was born in San Francisco, California and died in...

Norman G. Thomas

male
4544 Xanthus, 4581 Asclepius, 3352 McAuliffe, Celestial Handbook, blink comparator, Lowell Observatory
Norman G. Thomas is an American astronomer. He worked at Lowell Observatory using the blink comparator alongside Robert Burnham, Jr., author of the...