Samuel Mendelsohn (March 3, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American inventor credited with the invention of synchronized flash photography. New York Times:Samuel Mendelsohn Dies at 70; Inventor of Synchronised Flash;Samuel Mendelsohn, inventor of synchronized flash photography;February 04, 1966, A biographical dictionary of people in engineering: from the earliest; By Carl W. Hall;page 148 Electrically Operated Photoflash;Patent number: 1986513;Filing date: Jan 15, 1932;Issue date: Jan 1, 1935 PHOTOFLASH SYNCHRONIZER;Patent number: ;Filing date: Sep 21, 1936;Issue date: Jun 11, 1940 CAMERA SYNCHRONIZER;Patent number: RE22433;Filing date: Oct 18, 1941;Issue date: Feb 8, 1944 The New York Times said that his invention "opened a new era in photojournalism".
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