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Andrew Heafitz
American inventor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Andrew Heafitz is an American inventor. He is the VP of product development at Terrafugia, a company developing a flying car.
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Early life and education
Heaftiz grew up in Newton, Massachusetts[1][2] and attended Newton South High School.[3][4][5] He was awarded his first patent when he was 19[6] for a camera shutter. He was the founder of TacShot, a rocket-propelled camera capable of being quickly launched and deployed to photograph an area from overhead.[7][8][9]
Awards and honors
In 2003, he was recognized on the MIT Technology Review's TR100 list.[10]
He received the MIT Lemelson Student Inventor prize in 2002.[11]
References
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