Word: kosma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...June 6). In the issue of the British journal Nature which reached the U. S. last week was a picture taken by Professor L. C. Martin of London's Imperial College which showed a germ called Micrococcus flavus magnified 16,000 times. Last week in Richmond, Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of RCA Manufacturing Co. showed fluorescent-screen projections, made with his electron microscope, of tungsten crystals in which the molecules themselves could be distinguished in the molecular structure...
...upon to hit any particular target. Radiomen are appalled at the cost of setting up a network of ultra-short-wave stations, piping programs from station to station by cable or ordinary short-range radio-relay links. Last week was announced the invention by RCA's Inventor Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of a system designed to eliminate such costly cables...
...Patent Office as an autonomous organization. Lionized were six famed inventors: Orville Wright; Simon Lake, pioneer submarine experimenter who is currently trying to salvage $4,000,000 in gold from the hulk of an old British frigate at the bottom of New York's East River; Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, RCA-Victor television ace; William David Coolidge, General Electric's No. 1 x-ray researcher; Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion radio tube; and Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite...
Apparatus. The two rival electronic scanners which have left other rivals behind are the Farnsworth dissector tube and the iconoscope developed by RCA-Victor's famed Vladimir Kosma Zworykin. Both are good enough to transmit 6-by-8- in. images with the clarity of oldtime cinemas. The pictures are, in effect, divided into hundreds of horizontal lines and scanned line by line; 24 to 30 complete pictures are transmitted in a second...