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    Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1888/1889 – July 29, 1982) was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented...
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  • at 16 frames per second from Washington to Anacostia Navy station; Vladimir Zworykin applies for a patent for an all-electronic television system, the...
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    Everhart had improved a design for a secondary electron detection by Vladimir Zworykin and Jan A. Rajchman by changing the electron multiplier to a photomultiplier...
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    Rosing and his student Vladimir Zworykin created a system that used a mechanical mirror-drum scanner to transmit, in Zworykin's words, "very crude images"...
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    and inventors were émigrés. Igor Sikorsky was an aviation pioneer. Vladimir Zworykin was the inventor of the iconoscope and kinescope television systems...
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    Rosing and his student Vladimir Zworykin created a system that used a mechanical mirror-drum scanner to transmit, in Zworykin's words, "very crude images"...
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    engineer Vladimir Zworykin presented a project for a totally electronic television system to the company's general manager. In July 1925, Zworykin submitted...
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    and inventors were émigrés. Igor Sikorsky was an aviation pioneer. Vladimir Zworykin was the inventor of the iconoscope and kinescope television systems...
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    at the Wayback Machine, 1964. V.K. Zworykin with Frederick Olessi, Iconoscope: An Autobiography of Vladimir Zworykin, Chapter 10 – Television Becomes a...
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    customer needs. During one of these visits, in September 1934, RCA's Vladimir Zworykin was shown the first multiple-dynode photomultiplier, or photoelectron...
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    wirephoto systems were slow and did not reproduce well. In 1929, Vladimir Zworykin, an electronics engineer working for Western Electric, came up with...
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    Vladimir Zworykin filed two patents for a television system in 1923 and 1925. A research group at Westinghouse Electronic Company headed by Zworykin presented...
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  • frames per second from Washington to Anacostia Navy station. 1923 Vladimir Zworykin applies for patent for an all-electronic television system, the first...
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    parachute By Gleb Kotelnikov 1911 Television By Boris Rosing and Vladimir Zworykin 1911 Stanislavski's system A progression of techniques used to train...
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    and inventors were émigrés. Igor Sikorsky was an aviation pioneer. Vladimir Zworykin was the inventor of the iconoscope and kinescope television systems...
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    contributed significantly to American science and culture. Inventors Vladimir Zworykin, often referred to as "father of television", Alexander M. Poniatoff...
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    far. Despite this fact, most modern historians disputably consider Vladimir Zworykin and Philo Farnsworth as inventors of the first fully electronic TV...
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  • Iżewska, Polish actress (b. 1933) July 28 – Vladimir Smirnov, Soviet fencer (b. 1954) July 29 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-born inventor (b. 1889) August...
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    statesman, scientist and entrepreneur Vladimir Vernadsky (1863 – 1945), Russian mineralogist and geochemist Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American inventor, engineer...
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  • (1876–1956), Russia – matryoshka doll (together with Sergey Malyutin) Vladimir Zworykin (1889–1982), Russia/U.S. – Iconoscope, kinescope Creativity techniques...
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    faces in half-tones on television, influencing the later work of Vladimir K. Zworykin. On March 25, 1925, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird publicly demonstrated...
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  • science at Harvard Vladimir Zworykin – engineer and inventor, developed an early form of television; the IEEE presents a Vladimir Zworykin Award for outstanding...
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  • including John Wistar Simpson '41, a pioneer in nuclear energy, and Vladimir Zworykin '26, who has been regarded as the "father of television". National...
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    Rosing and his student Vladimir Zworykin created a system that used a mechanical mirror-drum scanner to transmit, in Zworykin's words, "very crude images"...
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  • Tesla(see invention of radio) Electronic television: Philo T. Farnsworth, Vladimir Zworykin(see history of television) Claims to the first powered flight: Shivkar...
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    Igor Sikorsky, credited with the invention of the first helicopters, Vladimir Zworykin, often called the father of TV, chemist Ilya Prigogine, noted for...
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  • broadcast a television transmission for the first time. By November, Vladimir Zworykin had taken out the first patent for color television. On November 29...
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    Shallenberger, William Stanley, Nikola Tesla, Stephen Timoshenko, and Vladimir Zworykin. Early on, Westinghouse was a rival to Thomas Edison's electric company...
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    pioneering the medium and met with Westinghouse engineer Vladimir Zworykin in 1928. At the time Zworykin was attempting to develop an all-electronic television...
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    professors like V.P. Yermakov, S.M. Reformatsky, M.I. Konovalov or Vladimir Zworykin became members of the first faculty. Since its establishing the institute...
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