Word: zworykin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Always focusing ahead, Sarnoff conceived the radio phonograph, negotiated the acquisition of the Victor Talking Machine Co., then immersed himself in developing Vladimir Zworykin's miraculous iconoscope for commercial television. The vision became a reality at the 1939 World's Fair, when, in the first public demonstration of TV, Sarnoff himself intoned from the screen...