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Re: [OM] fluorite; origins of multicoating

Subject: Re: [OM] fluorite; origins of multicoating
From: "Marco" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 22 Sep 98 17:06:27 +0200
On Mar, 22 set 1998 5:15, William Sommerwerck <mailto:williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote: 
>"Multicoating was around in the 1950's. I believe that View Camera
>magazine just had an article on this. It took the marketing types till
>the late 1970's to get us thinking we had to have it."
>

ASFAIK the firts MC was of professor Smakula of Carl Zeiss, that in 1935
patented the "T" coating (three layers). This T evolved in nowdays T*
(T-star) MC. 

Marco



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