Tom Swift’s New Camera, Ready for Space and Spies: An Artist Turns Inventor
By Megan • Oct 1st, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Julie Salamon of the New York Times reports:
“As an adolescent, Clifford Ross was an apathetic science student but obsessed by Tom Swift. Now 52, Mr. Ross has become a character appropriate to a boys’ adventure novel. An artist and businessman, he recently became an inventor – of a camera unusual enough to capture the attention of serious scientists, including the kinds who work for the government, experimenting with nuclear fusion, space travel and spy systems. What grabbed them were photographs Mr. Ross took that allowed them to see with astonishing clarity a tiny footpath on the top of a Colorado mountain seven miles from the camera.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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