Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer who discovered PReading?

just wondering...who's the first to discover and write about the PReading technique?

"Mentally Photographing" the printed page has been referenced in books since the early 1900s. Paul Scheele began studying the process in 1985 at the request of a client IDS/American Express Financial Services. Paul's PhotoReading book was first published in 1993; it is now in its third edition.