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In 1966, GTE Sylvania hired an electrical engineer [citation] who became a prodigious inventor for them. Although he is credited as Inventor of 16 patents, he worked [uncredited] on others, including the MagiCube, until his supervisor Don Armstrong, urged him to start writing up his innovations....

After that urging, he filed and was granted 16 patents Among his colleagues, he was known as the "schoolboy" of a small lot [20 or so] of development engineers.[citation]

Among these were the Super 10 FlipFlash, several mounting and primer innovations, and a Fluorescent starter [citation] that saved some 60% of companies' energy bills [citation]. It was for this latter that he won GTE/Sylvania's top award of the year, the GTE/Sylvania Leslie H. Warner Award for Technical Achievement. [citation]

Although the earlier Magicube innovation was a special project on which he worked during the 60s [citation] but did not claim/file [citation], a 1970 GTE/Sylvania ad declares that because of the Magicube (a mechanically-fired rather than electrically-fired flashbulb assembly), millions of pictures are saved each year [citation]. The Super 10 FlipFlash and its forerunner, the Magicube, literally saved memories that otherwise would have been lost in the shadows (e.g., with a defective contact or dying battery, both frequent in the days of the original flash cube).[citation]

Ronald E. Sindlinger was inventor of the Super 10 Super 10 FlipFlash Patent and fifteen other patented innovations [citation]. His family is working to get him credited with the MagiCube.

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