06/01/2026
Ein bischen Geschichte. L*D hat mehr an Neuerung hervorgebracht als man denkt. Mir war diese Entwicklung auch neu.
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RIP Myron J. Stolaroff
Myron J. Stolaroff August 20, 1920 – January 6, 2013
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After his first L*D experience in 1956, he declared L*D to be humankind’s most important discovery. He gave up his job as an electrical engineer to systematically study the effects of L*D, founding the International Foundation for Advanced Study in 1961. He was particularly interested in whether L*D could be used to enhance creativity or reinforce meditation.
The International Foundation for Advanced Study in Menlo Park was a non-profit medical research organization which he served as its president until 1970. During this time, he was the executive administrator for a group conducting clinical studies with L*D and mescaline; the IFAS administered psychedelics to about 350 participants. Their research resulted in six published papers on psychedelic therapy with Stolaroff as co-author on most of the articles. The Foundation's clinical studies came to an end in 1965 when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked research permits for psychedelics.
Stolaroff privately continued psychedelic research using unscheduled compounds from 1970 to 1986, until the Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement Act of 1986 was passed and halted his research again.
Along with fellow Ampex engineer, Harold Lindsey, Stolaroff co-designed the Ampex Model 200A reel-to-reel tape recorder, which was based on a German Magnetophon modified by the audio engineer Jack Mullin. With Bing Crosby arranging financial support for start-up manufacturing, the Ampex 200A went into production.Crosby gifted one of the first units to Les Paul, inventor of the solid-body electric guitar, who went on to produce numerous innovative recordings. Within three years most major recording studios had purchased an Ampex 200A. Songs such as Nat King Cole performing "Unforgettable" (1952 Capitol Records), Frank Sinatra performing "Young at Heart" (1953 Capitol Records), and Bill Haley performing "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" (1954 Decca Records), were recorded on an Ampex 200A. In 2008, Stolaroff was among the folks representing Ampex at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony to accept the company's first Grammy Award for Technical Achievement, in honor of their contribution sixty years earlier of the Ampex 200A, which "revolutionized the radio and recording industries".
During 1966–1967, Ampex FR-900 drives were used to videotape the first images of the Earth from the Moon, as part of the Lunar Orbiter program.
In 1966, Stewart Brand campaigned to have NASA release the then-rumored satellite image of the entire Earth as seen from space. He sold and distributed buttons for 25 cents eachasking, "Why haven't we seen a photograph of the whole Earth yet?".During this campaign, Brand met Richard Buckminster Fuller, who offered to help Brand with his projects. In 1967, a satellite, ATS-3, took the photo. Brand thought the image of our planet would be a powerful symbol.
Stewart Brand was also a part of IFAS experiments..
Ampex and the first images of Earth given to us have a bit of history with L*D!!!