The blade from the wall and the flash sync have in common? Their inventor Artur Fischer

'Pass me the tip of X, that here we get a nice fischer': anyone who has had to deal with the mounting of a shelf or a wall unit has said or has heard this sentence, with the right size of the drill bit to instead of 'X' according to the dowel chosen to support its weight. The 'fischer' is named after its inventor, Artur Fischer, a prolific inventor German: it is only one of more than 1,100 patents filed, a figure that has allowed him to outnumber the great inventors Thomas Edison caliber . Fischer has passed away on 27 January 2016 and her death has come up in the news just for the celebrity of his dowel, basic equipment for anyone to give yourself at home.

The analysis of more than a thousand patents, however we learn that Fischer was also the inventor of the camera with synchronized flash. We are in 1947 and a photographer refuses to photograph the Fischer newborn daughter because of bad lighting conditions. He says it himself in an interview with Spiegel in 2015, at the age of 95 years: "At that time it could only be used as a flash for shooting in indoor dust, which had to be ignited using a fuse" - said Fischer - "it was dangerous, and poor image quality when generally the subject was blinded by the flash."

Fischer decided to solve the problem by inventing himself a better system. This led to a system that was flashing the flash when it was operated the camera shutter: the invention was acquired by one of the great names in photography at the time, Agfa. An invention rather basic conceptual level, the one that was taking along the car and flash, but that certainly has revolutionized the world of photography and is now one of those things that is taken for granted. For those who wanted to know the invention of the plastic anchor came only 11 years later, in 1958.

                                Fischer was also the inventor of the camera with synchronized flash