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by apochronaut » Tue Feb 04, 2020 9:55 pm
and also part III , volume 8 , issue 5 in De Gruyter. The papers are quite interesting and authoritative in general but leave out extensively used but eventually superceded systems that were very highly productive over long periods of time and highly influential. Bausch & Lomb patents , those of Michael J. Buzawa and Harold Rosenberger, are significant but possibly due to the the designation of them as "semi-objectives" , they were considered outside of the scope of the papers. The simplified 1.20 N.A. objective of K.D. Sharma , of Leica too.
Of as much interest and education are the addendums to patents which contain acknowledgements and citations, sometimes leading one to the real inventors . There is a continuous stream of H.E. Shoemaker's patents being cited by Olympus and Nikon, so much so that one might wonder just who invented their original infinity corrected systems. Getting around patents with paper thin changes, has been the stock in trade of Japanese industry since before the second world war, or they outright just stole the designs when they could. No mention , or not that I have seen of Reichert's Lambert J.Danner's or Walter J. Bogath's patents who moved the infinity corrected systems forward in the 1980's either, or for that matter, those of Milton Sussman and Robert M Mueller, both of who moved the development of the infinity systems forward at AO going back to the early 60's and therefore the development of the entire industry.
Excellent and incredibly well researched papers , nonetheless.
