John Burnside
Inventor
1916 – 2008
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Who was John Burnside?
John Lyon Burnside III was the inventor of the teleidoscope, the darkfield kaleidoscope and the Symmetricon. Because he rediscovered the math behind kaleidoscope optics, for decades, every maker of optically correct kaleidoscopes sold in the United States paid him royalties. Harry Hay was his life partner from 1962 until Hay's death in 2002. He was living in San Francisco, California, at the time of his death on September 14, 2008 from complications of brain cancer.
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- Born
- Nov 2, 1916
Seattle - Spouses
- Harry Hay
(1963 - 2002) - Edith Sinclair
- Harry Hay
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Died
- Sep 14, 2008
San Francisco
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on July 23, 2013
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