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...transmitter that can make just such broadcasts. It is small enough (|⅛in. long, 4/10 in. in diameter) to be swallowed like an oversized pill. Conceived by New York Physician John T. Farrar, the plastic-encased transmitter was designed by RCA's doughty old (67) Electronics Pioneer Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (who perfected the electron microscope) to record changes in activity in the digestive tract...
...pound class--Guild (H) defeated Kosma, decision...
...instrument, developed by Dr. Simon Ramo and Dr. Charles H. Bachman, has a horizontal system, is 52 inches high, operates on a 110-volt light circuit, The R.C.A. model, only 16 inches long in us optical parts, is the product of work directed by famed television expert, Vladimir Kosma Zworykin...
...great pioneers in electron microscopy are the German firm of Siemens & Halske (TIME, June 6, 1938), and, in the U. S., the R. C. A. laboratories at Camden (TIME, Jan. 9, 1939). R. C. A.'s big man in the field is Russian-born, reticent Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, who is also its television ace. His first electron microscope was as big as a hot-water boiler, needed a whole roomful of high-voltage equipment to run. Since then R. C. A. has designed a smaller, slimmer, slicker instrument, whose power plant occupies only two cubic feet...
...television had become a reality in England, where Farnsworth licensed Baird Television Ltd., and in Germany, where he licensed Fernseh A. G. But though the U. S. was the home of Philo Farnsworth and the adopted home of his sole peer in television, RCA's Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, television remained something U. S. citizens heard much about but seldom saw. Last week the U. S. heard something more about television: after twelve years Philo Farnsworth was to have his own manufacturing company with two factories and over $2,500,000 in cash behind...