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William 'Bill' Novey (1948 – 1991) was an American special effects guru in Hollywood, Head of Special Effects at Walt Disney Imagineering in the 1970s, and co-founder of Art & Technology, Inc. with Disney executive Joe Garlington in the 1980s. At Disney, Novey was tasked with overseeing 6000 special effects in the Epcot Center near Orlando, Florida and Tokyo Disneyland.〔 * *〕 He invented over 300 projectors and helped inspire a new wave of special effects and technological innovations including the first use of holograms and vector-scanning laser projections in a theme park.〔 * *〕 At Art & Technology, Novey developed a number of memorable special effects and high-tech exhibits seen in various theme parks around the world, including the first ever motion-simulator in a museum. Novey holds a number of US patents.〔 *(【引用サイトリンク】title=William E. Novey Patents ) *(【引用サイトリンク】title=Patents By Inventor William E. Novey ) *(【引用サイトリンク】title=Solid state timer-stepper ) 〕 ==Personal life== He was born William E. Novey in 1948 in Downers Grove, Illinois. Novey earned Bachelor's degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering, and a Master's in Theater Technology from California Institute of the Arts. He was married to entertainment executive Jody Van Meter. He died in 1991 at age 43 from Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He is buried at the Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Novey )〕 In October 2008, a bench was donated in Novey's honor in the Garden Walk at the library in his hometown of Downers Grove, Illinois with an inscription that reads: “William E. Novey, Who Made the World a Happier Place." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Novey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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