The person who was killed in a office accident Friday afternoon at Port San Antonio has been recognized as 72-year-old David Monroe.
Monroe was a prolific inventor credited with creating the cellphone digicam and founding the San Antonio Museum of Science and Know-how (SAMSAT).
Police and firefighters responded to a name on the Boeing Heart at Tech Port at 4:30 p.m. Friday, the place SAMSAT is situated, after reviews that a big piece of apparatus, described by officers as presumably a jet engine, had fallen on a person. Firefighters declared Monroe useless on the scene close to a loading dock, based on the San Antonio Hearth Division.
Port San Antonio on Saturday confirmed Monroe’s id in a press release remembering him as a visionary who left a mark on the native and world know-how business.
“David was a pressure for good who remodeled numerous lives he touched,” wrote Paco Felici, the port’s chief of workers and chief communications officer, within the assertion. “To the Port crew, he was a good friend and associate who impressed us and, via his beloved SAMSAT and museum crew, labored hand in hand in a shared imaginative and prescient to make the world a greater place.”
The San Antonio Museum of Science and Know-how, which Monroe led as chief govt officer, additionally issued a press release via its web site on behalf of his spouse, Lorena, and the museum crew.
“David Monroe was a prolific inventor, a pushed entrepreneur, and a person with a coronary heart for know-how’s impression on the lives of adults and kids,” the assertion learn. “His contribution to the digital age has been felt all around the world. His last chapter was bringing this impression to all corners of San Antonio. He will probably be significantly missed by his household, buddies, and colleagues at SAMSAT and past.”
Monroe’s profession in know-how started whereas he was nonetheless in highschool, engaged on electrical engineering tasks for municipal and aerospace purchasers. By 27, he had turn out to be vice chairman of analysis and growth at Datapoint Company, a San Antonio-based agency that grew right into a Fortune 500 firm. He went on to guide a number of firms within the electronics, communications and safety sectors.
Over the many years, Monroe secured at the very least 54 patents, with improvements spanning the early microcomputer processor, wi-fi networking, teleradiology and digital imaging. He’s well known for pioneering know-how that made the cellphone digicam potential.
Exterior of his enterprise ventures, Monroe devoted himself to preserving and sharing know-how’s historical past. A purpose he pursued via SAMSAT, the museum works to encourage college students and adults alike to discover science, know-how, engineering and math via instructional applications and summer season camps. Monroe additionally spearheaded the FoxWorks, a high-end maker area on the Port San Antonio campus.
His contributions and innovations within the metropolis and past earned him the San Antonio Know-how Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 and the FBI Director’s Neighborhood Management Award in 2017.
“To tens of hundreds of individuals — children and adults alike — he was a tireless chief deeply dedicated to offering alternatives to lifelong studying,” Port San Antonio stated in its assertion.
Reporter Jasper Kenzo Sundeen contributed to this story.
