Roger C. Field
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| Born |
31 July 1945 London, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Industrial designer, inventor, musician |
| Awards | Designers' Choice Award for the United States (1980) |
Roger C. Field (born 31 July 1945) is an inventor with over 100 patents, an award-winning industrial designer and a guitarist. He is best known as the inventor of the Foldaxe folding electric guitar. He has been written about in Playboy magazine 21 times in 16 countries, in Penthouse magazine four times in Europe, and in Esquire. He is in four different Who's Who books in Europe including one for the European Union.
Field was born in London, England. His father was the owner and managing director of Siegmund Robinow & Son Ltd, a company in London and Hamburg, which at that time manufactured exclusive garments. After attending Stagenhoe Park near Hitchin from 1953–1958 he attended The King's School, Canterbury from 1958–1960, then Aiglon College in Switzerland from 1960–1963. Field attended the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California early in 1965 to major in Industrial design and graduated with a Bachelor's degree. Field also completed courses in Film & Television at San Francisco State University. In 1969, he filmed the California College of the Arts at the request of Harry X. Ford, the president of the college in 16mm (titled To Be An Artist), which included poet Michael McClure, an English professor at CCAC at the time. The film, which was financed by the college, was later shown on television.
Field, an aviation enthusiast who had received a Private Pilot Licence with a multi-engine rating in California, then moved to Munich to work on the newly formed Airbus project, contributing to the interior design of the aircraft. While in Munich, Field developed drill units reducing the risk of cross contamination for the dental industry (U.S. Patent 5,599,184 and other patents).
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