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Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin , 1889-1982, American physicist, b. Russia, educated in Russia, at the Collège de France, and at the Univ. of Pittsburgh (Ph.D., 1926). He became an American citizen in 1924. On the staff of the Radio Corp. of America after 1929, he became vice president and technical ... Read more
Philo Taylor Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth 1906-71, American inventor, b. Beaver, Utah, grad. Brigham Young Univ., 1925. He demonstrated (1927) a working model of a television system. His "dissector tube" (called the orthicon), like V. K. Zworykin's iconoscope, is a means of dividing an image into particles whose... Read more
microscope
microscope optical instrument used to increase the apparent size of an object. Simple Microscopes A magnifying glass, an ordinary double convex lens having a short focal length, is a simple microscope. The reading lens and hand lens are instruments of this type. When an object is placed... Read more
television
television transmission and reception of still or moving images by means of electrical signals, especially by means of electromagnetic radiation using the techniques of radio and by fiberoptic and coaxial cables. Television has become a major industry, especially in the industrialized nations, ... Read more

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Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Vladimir Kosma Zworykin The Russian-American physicist and radio engineer Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1889-1982) made important contributions...the newer field of electronics. Vladimir Zworykin was born in Mourom, Russia, on July 30...
Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma (1889–1982...Russia. A pioneer of television , in 1929 Zworykin joined the Radio Corporation of America...development and (in 1947) a vice president. Zworykin and his colleagues developed the iconoscope...
SIC 7622 Radio and Television Repair Shops
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries ...electronic scanning system. The following year, Vladimir Zworykin developed the iconoscope and kinescope, which are the respective...the television receiver. The first public demonstration of Zworykin's all-electronic television system was in 1929. Radio...
television
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...system employing electronic scanning was patented by V. K. Zworykin in 1928. The 1930s saw the laboratory perfection of television...Development of the Television Camera and Receiver V. K. Zworykin's iconoscope (1923) was the first successful camera tube...
Television
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...independently: American Philo Farnsworth (1906 – 1971) and Russian-born American Vladimir Zworykin (1889 – 1982). Of the two, Zworykin experienced the greater success in patenting and marketing his ideas. How television works...
Philo T. Farnsworth
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...critical in settling a patent dispute between Farnsworth and his competitor at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), Vladimir Zworykin. Farnsworth took physics courses by correspondence from the University of Utah and later enrolled at Brigham Young University...
Philo Taylor Farnsworth
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...demonstrated (1927) a working model of a television system. His "dissector tube" (called the orthicon), like V. K. Zworykin's iconoscope, is a means of dividing an image into particles whose light values, when transmitted, are capable of being...
Electronics
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...system was proved superior, Bell Labs engineers introduced the cathode ray picture tube and color television. But Vladimir Zworykin, an engineer with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), is considered the “ father of the television ”...
microscope
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...may be photographed. It was first developed in Germany c.1932; James Hillier and Albert Prebus, of Canada, and V. K. Zworykin, of the United States also made notable contributions to its development. The scanning electron microscope, introduced in...
Russian Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement ...Among the more famous Russian immigrants to the United States were the inventors Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972) and Vladmir Zworykin (1889-1982), the writer Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), the actor Yul Brynner (1915-1985), and the actress Natalie...

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Television became a reality in 1929, when Vladimir K. Zworykin demonstrated the first practical television system.(Sidelights)
Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication; 9/25/1995; 416 words ; * Television became a reality in 1929, when Vladimir K. Zworykin demonstrated the first practical television system. But it was not until 1939 when NBC made the first regular telecasts in the...
"Dr. X's" instant images: one fine day in a field of hay, an Idaho farm boy dreams up electronic television. (Philo T. Farnsworth)(Special Report: Masters of Discovery: The Great Inventors of the 20th Century)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 8/17/1998; 700+ words ; ...his great rival for glory: Vladimir Zworykin, a brilliant Ph.D. in electrical...Born into a wealthy family in Russia, Zworykin as a student had assisted a prominent...his experiments with early television. Zworykin had gone on to dream his own dreams about...
Baseball on television: the formative years, 1939-51. (Articles).
Magazine article from: Nine; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...photos of his new offspring. Vladimir Zworykin was a scientist who fled post-Bolshevik...he gave them. While working at RCA, Zworykin perfected his iconoscope, the first...a television camera until the 1980s. Zworykin's creation, and its relentless promotion...
ERNEST MASSA SR., 90; HELPED CREATE TELEVISION PICTURE TUBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/5/2004; ; 699 words ; ...an associate physicist to Dr. V. K. Zworykin, he helped develop the first practical...It was not until the early 1930s when Zworykin and his staff of scientists developed...of the 12 scientists who worked with Zworykin at RCA in the early 1930s. Of the many...
TV Times: 50 years of the tube.(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Look Japan; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Westinghouse by the name of Vladimir Zworykin was making progress on his own electronic television system. On 18 November 1929 Zworykin demonstrated a television receiver based...picture tubes. Though Takayanagi and Zworykin pursued their research for the most part...
Sorkin Reinvents the Boob Tube; Plimpton Reinvents Cymbeline's Imogen.
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 12/4/2007; 700+ words ; ...hour and a half into the play: Vladimir Zworykin, the devious Russian scientist, is...system disclosed by my application," Zworykin explains, "utilizes a cathode ray tube...are thoroughly unprepared for it." Zworykin continues, "... so as to reconstruct...
Englishman credited with inventing television.(Neighbor)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 3/23/2000; 700+ words ; ...as Philo T. Farnsworth and Vladimir Zworykin, who developed television in 1927...Baird's television image. Vladimir Zworykin invented the iconoscope, which used...electronic television set was born. Zworykin continued to refine and revise his developments...
TV's origin, smartly told on Broadway; Geniuses spar in Sorkin's play
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/4/2007; ; 649 words ; ...in later patent battles was Vladimir Zworykin, a Russian-bred, American-based...Westinghouse in the late 1920s and '30s. Zworykin picked up a crucial bit of information...real nemesis, and the man who assured Zworykin's primacy, was the visionary mogul...
The Philo T. Farnsworth circus and other stories. (Editorial).(Editorial)
Magazine article from: Semiconductor International; 12/1/2002; 700+ words ; ...not until the early 1930s when Vladimir Zworykin (former director of the electron research...original 12 scientists who worked with Zworykin. It turns out that John Logie Baird...basis of how TV works today, it was Zworykin with RCA's resources behind him that...
MANY FOUNDERS OF TELEVISION
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/25/2002; 381 words ; ...FATHER OF TELEVISION IS DR. V.K. ZWORYKIN, FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE ELECTRON RESEARCH...It was not until the early 1930s when Zworykin and his staff of scientists developed...of the 12 scientists who worked with Zworykin at RCA in the early 1930s. Of the many...