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...Princeton laboratory Dr. Vladimir K. Zworykin, R.C.A.'s great electronics inventor, who pioneered the TV tube, worried about this phenomenon. What U.S. driving needs, he concluded, is some masterful device to take it away from the drivers. After years of work, Dr. Zworykin announced last week that he had designed an electronic system to do just that...
...Zworykin's automatic highway, each traffic lane has a wire cable buried in the paving down its middle. Carrying an alternating current, it will serve as a guide, like the rails of a railroad. Electronic devices on each car feel for the buried cable and make the power steering system keep the car centerd over...
Married. Vladimir Zworykin, 62, Russian-born, Russian-trained physicist, the "father of television," who developed the iconoscope (eye) of the TV camera in 1923, now laments: "We never dreamed of Howdy Doody on Television - we always thought television would find its highest value in science and industry"; and Katherine Polevitzky, 62, Russian-born professor of bacteriology at the University of Pennsylvania; both for the second time; in Burlington...
...Vladimir Zworykin...
...research headquarters at Princeton, N.J. Dr. Zworykin (who joined RCA in 1929) and his colleagues, under Vice President C. B. Jolliffe, brought many other startling developments : the electron microscope, the infrared "sniperscope" which enabled World War II G.I.s to knock off skulking Japanese troops at night, "shoran" for accurate blind-bombing. In World War II, RCA turned out an estimated $500 million worth of devices for the armed forces. Now it has big defense orders, many for products no one else can make...