History
R.D. Parker patented the IR iceberg detector in 1914. In 1929, Hungarian physicist Kálmán Tihanyi invented the infrared-sensitive (night vision) electronic television camera for anti-aircraft defense in Britain. The first conventional IR camera, the "Evaporograph", was declassified around 1956.
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