Sidney Cotton
Frederick Sidney Cotton OBE (17 June 1894 – 13 February 1969) was an Australian inventor, photographer and aviation and photography pioneer, responsible for developing and promoting an early colour film process, and largely responsible for the development of photographic reconnaissance before and during the Second World War. He numbered among his close friends George Eastman, Ian Fleming and Winston Churchill.
Read more about Sidney Cotton: Early Years, First World War, Between The Wars, Spy Missions, Second World War, Postwar
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“Of highest wish, I wish you so much bliss,—
Hundreds of years you Stella’s feet may kiss!”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
“We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, will often peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)