Inventors
Two people claim to be the inventor of the laser harp: Geoffrey Rose and Bernard Szajner. Geoffrey Rose took out a provisional patent with the British Patent office in 1975/6. Bernard Szajner has a Patent (it means that the Office Patent of Paris never found evidence of another inventor of the same/similar instrument before him). (Patent: FR2502823 (A1) Date de priorité : 1981-03-27).
The engineers that have created a laser harp for jean Michel Jarre are: Denis Carnus, Philippe Guerre, Claude Lifante, Yan Terrien.
Several amateur electronics enthusiasts have created their own versions of the laser harp: Steve Hobley, Manuel Schulz, Franck Morisseau, Albert de Jonge, Maurizio Carelli, Sébastien Pamart, Andrew Kilpatrick.
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“They will call you the annihilators of morals: but you are simply the inventors of yourselves.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.”
—Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)
“In America, the geography is sublime, but the men are not: the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)