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Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-American Inventor

Editorial use only . Zworykin holding an iconoscope, an early television camera tube. Vladimir Kosmich Zworykin (1888-1982), Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. In 1919, he emigrated to the United States to work at the Westinghouse laboratory in Pittsburgh. In 1929, he invented the cathode-ray tube called the kinescope and was one of the first to demonstrate a television system with all the features of modern picture tubes. Having developed the prototype of the receiver by December, Zworykin met David Sarnoff, who hired him and put him in charge of television development for RCA at their newly established laboratories in Camden, New Jersey. In 1931 he invented a new type of cathode ray transmitter, that he named Iconoscope, which became the leading camera tube used for TV broadcasting.

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Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-American Inventor

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Editorial use only . Zworykin holding an iconoscope, an early television camera tube. Vladimir Kosmich Zworykin (1888-1982), Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. In 1919, he emigrated to the United States to work at the Westinghouse laboratory in Pittsburgh. In 1929, he invented the cathode-ray tube called the kinescope and was one of the first to demonstrate a television system with all the features of modern picture tubes. Having developed the prototype of the receiver by December, Zworykin met David Sarnoff, who hired him and put him in charge of television development for RCA at their newly established laboratories in Camden, New Jersey. In 1931 he invented a new type of cathode ray transmitter, that he named Iconoscope, which became the leading camera tube used for TV broadcasting.

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