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built 292 days ago
Established in November 18, 1953, Ryosan is a leading Japanese distributor of semiconductors, electronic components and electronic devices. For more information about Ryosan Company, Ltd., please visit the company website at www.ryosan.co.jp/eng/
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Robert Gottschalk founded Panavision in late 1953, in partnership with Richard Moore, Meredith Nicholson, Harry Eller, Walter Wallin, and William Mann;[1] the company was formally incorporated in 1954. Panavision was established principally for the manufacture of anamorphic projection lenses to meet the growing demands of theaters showing CinemaScope films.[2] At the time of Panavision's formation, Gottschalk owned a camera shop in Westwood Village, California, where many of his customers were cinematographers.[3] A few years earlier, he and Moore—who worked with him in the camera shop—were experimenting with underwater photography; Gottschalk became interested in the technology of anamorphic lenses, which allowed him to get a wider field of view from his underwater camera housing.[4] The technology was created during World War I to increase the field of view on tank periscopes; the periscope image was horizontally "squeezed" by the anamorphic lens. After it was unsqueezed by a complementary anamorphic optical element, the tank operator could see double the horizontal field of view without significant distortion.[3] Gottschalk and Moore bought some of these lenses from C.P. Goerz, a New York optics company, for use in their underwater photography. As widescreen filmmaking became popular, Gottschalk saw an opportunity to provide anamorphic lenses to the film industry—first for projectors, and then for cameras. Nicholson, a friend of Moore, started working as a cameraman on early tests of anamorphic photography.[5]
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The company was formed as Automotive Research Associates (ARA) in 1953 by Norm Penfold. EG&G changed ARL's name to PerkinElmer Automotive Research, Inc. after EG&G acquired rights to the "PerkinElmer" name as part of its acquisition of the Analytical Instruments business from The Perkin-Elmer Corporation in 1999. Intertek acquired ARL in October of 2005. Visit the Intertek ARL homepage.
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