Hideo Kodama

Background

A Japanese researcher at the Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute.

Contribution

Published a layered photopolymer rapid-prototyping method in 1981, an early demonstration of additive fabrication that predated commercial stereolithography.

Associated inventions

• Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing)

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Chuck Hull

Sources & further reading

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• Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW)IEEE / United Engineering Foundation · Professional body

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