Posted on July 30, 2022
This is an update of my post published on July 30, 2011:
He is sometimes called the Father of Television!
Vladimir Zworykin was born in Russia in 1889. He studied science and engineering and worked on early television at St. Petersburg Institute of Technology. He came to the U.S. in 1918, during the Russian Civil War, by joining a scientific expedition in Siberia and continuing on to Alaska. Once in the U.S., Zworykin worked at the Westinghouse laboratories in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He continued to work on improvements for television and earned his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh (the university that features that wonderful Cathedral of Learning I mentioned in yesterday’s post!).
Zworykin helped develop cathode ray tubes, infrared image tubes, and the electron microscope.
Learn about the evolution of the television here.
Also on this date:
Art historian Giogio Vasari’s birthday
International Day of Friendship
Independence Day in Vanuatu
Paperback Book Day
Anniversary of the first Disney Technicolor project
Birthday of actor and producer Lisa Kudrow
National Dance Day
(Last Saturday in July)
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Islamic New Year
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