Chadwell (Chad) O’Connor, founder of OConnor Engineering, was an inventor, steam engine enthusiast, and is most remembered as the inventor of the fluid-damped camera head, an achievement for which he won an Academy Award in 1992.
O’Connor’s early home environment in his native Boston likely contributed to his active mind.
Johnson O’Connor, his father, was a well-known psychometrician and pioneer in the study of aptitude testing.
His mother died while he was young, and his father remarried MIT-train
