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December 20, 1996 - Image 31

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1996-12-20

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Jewry's Role in
Human Advancement

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Five hundred years ago, gifted Jewish astronomers
mapped the stars for European explorations at sea.
And today, Polaroid cameras, Kodachrome film and
alkaline batteries owe to the inventiveness of 20th
Century Jews. Both traditions of discovery are sep-
arately embodied in the two we honor.

EMILE BERLINER
(1851-1929) b.Wolfenbuettel, Ger.
Inventor/Industrialist Credits to
Alexander G. Bell for the telephone
and to Thomas A. Edison for the
phonograph should rightly be shared
with a Jewish inventor of rare
genius. Within a decade he transformed both into
practical realities that sired huge industries. Bell's
telephone was revolutionized by his wizardry: an
induction coil for a workable microphone that
transmitted the human voice with clarity over long
distances (1877). And by designing a hard disc to
replace the clumsy wax cylinder of Edison's machine,
he created the Berliner Gramophone (renamed the
Victor Talking Machine) with superior fidelity and
mass popularity (1887).
Others of his contributions to technology and
public service are legendary. Introduction of successful
revolving cylinder aircraft engines. Key developments
in motion picture projection. Building three prototype
helicopters he flight tested himself. Fathering the
idea of royalty rights for performing artists. Leadership
in promoting the pasteurization of milk and fighting
tuberculosis. President Herbert Hoover said of him:
"The German immigrant boy, Emile Berliner, has
become one of America's most useful citizens."

CARL SAGAN
(1934- ) b. Brooklyn, NY
Astronomer/Author More than one-
half billion people in sixty countries
joined the awesome tour through
deep space he narrated in 1980.
Cosmos, an award-winning TV
spectacular based on his book, was but one achieve-
ment of the world's preeminent popularizer of
astronomy, space flight and cosmology. He earlier
played a major role in the Mariner, Viking and
Voyager planetary' missions, and in researching the
possibilities of extraterrestrial life. The current director
of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell
University has also authored over seven-hundred
articles and twenty books. Among them are bestsellers
Broca's Brain,,Contact and Pulitzer Prize Winning The
Dragons of Eden. In 1975, while still in mid-career, he
received the coveted Joseph Priestly Award "for
distinguished contributions to the welfare of mankind."

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