{"id":9,"date":"2009-07-23T17:49:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T17:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2009-07-24T05:52:38","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T05:52:38","slug":"what-happened-40-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"What happened 40 years ago ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1969, a year to remember or not ? I think that 1969 was a great year, a year to remember, at least for me ! \u00a0<\/span>Let me tell you why.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>At that time I was 15 years old, living in Belgium and enjoying cycling very much, at least in a passive way by watching cycling sports on TV.\u00a0 <\/span>What happened on July 20th<\/sup> 1969 ?\u00a0 <\/span>Of course, Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon.\u00a0 <\/span>Everybody knows, but basically on the same day, Eddy Merckx – elected to be the Belgian sportsman of the 20th<\/sup> century – won his first (of five) Tour de France.\u00a0 <\/span>In Belgium the newspapers did not know what to put on the front page : Merckx or Armstrong.\u00a0 <\/span>Both men were writing history, at least in our tiny small country.\u00a0 <\/span>One newspaper came with a unique solution : they printed a newspaper with two front pages, back-to-back.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But more happened in 1969 : in the beginning of that year, a new type of airplane made his first flight, the jumbo-jet Boeing 747.\u00a0 <\/span>Over the last 40 years many improvements were introduced to the 747, but basically what we have today is still the same concept as 4 decades ago.\u00a0 <\/span>Every time I fly to the USA or to the Far East in a 747, this flying \u201cmonster\u201d impresses me again and again : so big, so huge, so heavy, and after 1 minute on the runway it takes off.\u00a0 <\/span>Amazing that the 747 survived 40 years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Keeping in mind the name of my company, another major milestone was set in 1969 : Woodstock.\u00a0 <\/span>People of my age probably remember the very first big, open-air rock-\u2018n-roll festivals.\u00a0 <\/span>And Woodstock was one of the biggest ever organized. \u00a0<\/span>Very famous was the set by Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner on his guitar with his mouth.\u00a0 <\/span>But there was a \u201csuper\u201d group announced having David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash being the front men.\u00a0 <\/span>During their show at Woodstock, another \u201chero\u201d totally unexpected joined them on stage : Neil Young.\u00a0 <\/span>That is how I got to know his music and more, that is how I got addicted to it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Merckx, Armstrong, 747, Woodstock, Neil Young, all big names that made a great impression on me.\u00a0 <\/span>But also in 1969 two young engineers from Philips Research in Eindhoven (Netherlands) were working – \u00a0<\/span>already during a couple of years – on a new solid-stated device.\u00a0 <\/span>They called it a Bucket-Brigade Device (BBD) and they published their first results in the famous year 1969.\u00a0 <\/span>The two researches, Leo Sangster and Kees Teer, announced their new device being an analog memory.\u00a0 <\/span>But in their original publication, they also mentioned the potential of the device to act as a solid-state image sensor.\u00a0 <\/span>Soon after the introduction of the BBD, it was recognized that the BBD had too many disadvantages to become a commercial success, but ultimately it formed the basis for the Charge-Coupled Devices (CCD, published in 1970 by Boyle and Smith of Bell Labs).\u00a0 <\/span>A few years later, in 1976, I started working on CCDs.\u00a0 <\/span>At that moment I could not realize that the technical and scientific work published in 1969 almost completely determined my professional career.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe some of the things that happened in 1969 sound like details to you, but some of them are really milestones to me !\u00a0 <\/span>1969 is an important year to remember.\u00a0 <\/span>Wasn\u2019t it the Summer of \u201969 Bryan ?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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