Word: zworykin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forest invented the vacuum tube-a milestone for television as well as for radio. In 1923 a Russian immigrant, Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin (now an RCA engineer) patented the iconoscope-the tube that changed television from a somewhat mechanical to a purely electronic science. In 1928, a Scot, John Logie Baird, telecast a woman's face from London to the S.S. Berengaria, 1,000 miles out at sea, and in the U.S. fuzzy facsimiles of Felix the Cat were televised. Three years later, in a Montclair, N.J. basement, Dr. Allen B. Du Mont brought forth a workable television receiver...
...phases of world doings); 2) periodicals (the most important U.S. and foreign magazines and trade journals); 3) subject file (general material on everything from Absinthe to Zoos); 4) biographical file (information on well known peopie, living or dead, from AE, Irish Poet George William Russell's pseudonym, to Zworykin, Vladimir K., Russian-born U.S. physicist...
...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...