Roger Hayward (1899 – October 11, 1979) was an American artist, architect, optical designer and astronomer. He is the inventor of an early
Schmidt-Cassegrain camera that was patented in 1945. He was born on January 7, 1899, to mother, artist
Ina Kittredge (Phelps) Hayward and local businessman and time piece hobbyist Robert Peter Hayward. He was the grandson of American landscape artist
William Preston Phelps
William Preston Phelps (1848–1923), known as "the Painter of the Mount Monadnock, Monadnock", was an American landscape painter.
Early years
He was born on the family farm near Chesham, New Hampshire, Chesham, then the Pottersville section of ...
.
In December 1968 he wrote "
Blivets: Research and Development" to ''
The Worm Runner's Digest'' in which he presented interpretations of impossible objects.
References
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US Patent 2,403,660, Schmidt-Cassegrain camera
External links
Roger Hayward - Renaissance Man
a biography of Roger Hayward written by his family members and published by Oregon State University
Oregon State University (OSU) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate degree programs and a variety of graduate and doctor ...
A digitized collection of pastel drawings of molecules created by Hayward
20th-century American engineers
1899 births
1979 deaths
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