Television pioneers Television pioneers Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, FRS ( 1863– 1930) was a Scottish consulting electrical engineer born in Edinburgh. He described an electronic basis of producing television in a 1908 letter to Nature. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton"
Alan Dower Blumlein was an electronics engineer who made a great many inventions in telecommunications, sound recording, stereo, television and radar. He received 128 patents. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Blumlein"
Dr. Allen Balcom DuMont ( January 29, 1901 - November 14, 1965) was an American scientist and inventor best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers. Seven years later he manufactured and sold the first commercially practical television set to the public. In 1938, his Model 180 television receiver was the first all-electronic television set ever sold to the public, a few months prior to RCA's first set. DuMont later went on to found in 1946 the first television network to be licensed, the DuMont Television Network, initially by linking station WABD (named for DuMont) in New York City to station WTTG in Washington, DC. (WTTG was named for Dr. Thomas T. Goldsmith, DuMont's Vice President of Research, and his best friend; Goldsmith turned 94 in January, 2004.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Allen B. DuMont"
Boris Lvovich Rosing ( ) ( 1869– 1933) was a Russian scientist and inventor in the field of television. In 1907, he envisioned a TV system using the CRT that was practically demonstrated in 1911. By 1907, Rosing had developed a television system which employed a mechanical disc system as a camera, and a very early cathode ray tube (developed in Germany by Karl Ferdinand Braun) as a receiver. The system was primitive, but it was more electronic than mechanical. Rosing and Vladimir Zworykin exhibited a television system in 1910, using a mechanical scanner in the transmitter and the electronic Braun tube in the receiver. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boris Rosing"
Charles Francis Jenkins ( August 22, 1867 - June 5, 1934) was a pioneer of early cinema and one of the inventors of television, though he used mechanical rather than electronic technologies. His businesses included Charles Jenkins Laboratories and Jenkins Television Corporation (the corporation being founded in 1928, the year the Laboratories were granted the first commercial television license in the United States). ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Francis Jenkins"
Constantin Perskyi (Константин Дмитриевич Перский) was a Russian scientist who is credited with coining the word television in a paper read (in French) to the 1900 Paris World Exhibition's 1st International Congress of Electricity. At the time, he was Professor of Electricity at the Artillery Academy of Saint Petersburg. His paper referred to the work of other Russian experimenters in the field, including Nipkow and Bachmetiev (Порфирий Иванович Бахметьев), who were attempting to use the photoelectric properties of selenium as the basis for their inventions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Constantin Perskyi"
David Sarnoff ( February 27, 1891– December 12, 1971) was the General Manager of Radio Corporation of America (RCA) from its founding in 1919 to his retirement in 1970. Known as the general he ruled over an ever-growing radio and electronics empire that became one of the largest companies in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Sarnoff"
:For a fuller account, see the television entry. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of television"
John Logie Baird ( August 13 1888 – June 14 1946) was a Scottish engineer, who is best known for being the first person to demonstrate a working television. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Logie Baird"
Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow, born 22nd August 1860 in Lauenburg in Pomerania, died 24th August 1940 in Berlin), was a German technician and inventor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paul Gottlieb Nipkow"
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin ( ( July 30, 1889 - July 29, 1982) was a pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented the iconoscope, a television transmitting tube, and the kinescope, a cathode ray tube that projects pictures it receives onto a screen. He also invented an infrared image tube and helped develop an electron microscope. ...more on Wikipedia about "Vladimir Zworykin"
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