AN APPRECIATION
John Cruickshank, who has died aged 84, was a typewriter mechanic who went on to invent a medical alarm that saved thousands of lives and helped Nasa develop its space programme.
In the 1960s he was part of the development team that created a 3D scanning system, and his work influenced the design of high-speed scanners used by Nasa and the US military.
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