Vladimir K. Zworykin
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Vladimir Kosma Zworykin was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode-ray tubes. H
Zworykin in c. 1956
Zworykin demonstrates electronic television (1929).
Drawing from Zworykin's 1923 patent application Television System.
Zworykin and some of the historic camera tubes he developed
Philo Farnsworth
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor who was granted the first patent for the television by the United States government. He also invented a video camera tube and the image dissector. He s
Vladimir K. Zworykin
…started the public broadcastings using this tube and applying a 180 lines system." RCA filed an interference suit against rival television scientist Philo Farnsworth, claiming Zworykin's 1923 patent had priority over Farnsworth's design, despite the fact it could present no evidence that Zworykin had actually produced…
Farnsworth in 1939
Yearbook photo of Farnsworth, 1924
Plaque at the location of Farnsworth's San Francisco laboratory on Green Street.
1943 company advertisement.