Jam Handy
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| Full name | Henry Jamison Handy | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Jam" | ||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 6, 1886 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | November 13, 1983 (aged 97) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke, freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Chicago Central YMCA Chicago Athletic Association Illinois Athletic Club | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | William Bachrach (Illinois AC) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Henry Jamison "Jam" Handy (March 6, 1886 – November 13, 1983) was an American Olympic breaststroke swimmer, water polo player, and founder of the Jam Handy Organization (JHO), a producer of commercially sponsored motion pictures, slidefilms (later known as filmstrips), trade shows, industrial theater and multimedia training aids. Credited as the first person to imagine distance learning, Handy made his first film in 1910 and presided over a company that produced an estimated 7,000 motion pictures and perhaps as many as 100,000 slidefilms before it was dissolved in 1983.