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    William Alfred Higinbotham (October 22, 1910 – November 10, 1994) was an American physicist. A member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb...
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    developed in the early history of video games. American physicist William Higinbotham designed the game in 1958 for display at the Brookhaven National...
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  • engineer and civil servant William Higinbotham (1910–1994), physicist and video game pioneer Division of Higinbotham Higinbotham Province Higginbotham Higginbottom...
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    George Higinbotham (19 April 1826 – 31 December 1892) was a politician and was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, which is the highest...
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  • Chanois, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1985) 1910 – William Higinbotham, American physicist and video game designer (d. 1994) 1910 – Johnny...
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  • William Higinbotham (1910-1994), American physicist. William Holden (1918–1981), American actor William Hurt (1950–2022), American actor William Ismael...
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  • program simulated a game of tennis. Created by American physicist William Higinbotham for visitors at the Brookhaven National Laboratory to be more entertaining...
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    1952; Tennis for Two, an electronic interactive game engineered by William Higinbotham in 1958; and Spacewar!, written by Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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    patents, claiming as prior art the 1958 Tennis for Two game built by William Higinbotham. The court, however, ruled that the oscilloscope-based game did not...
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  • Seamus Blackley: main designer and developer of the original Xbox William Higinbotham: main developer of Tennis for Two. One of the first video games developed...
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    Another early demonstration was Tennis for Two, a game created by William Higinbotham at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1958 for three-day exhibition...
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    (1968) Morton Heilig (1943) – early virtual reality pioneer, inventor William Higinbotham (graduate study) – developer of Tennis for Two, 1958, one of the...
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    Froman. Within this group, his close collaborators were William Elmore, William Higinbotham, and Ernest Titterton. Anybody who had an instrumentation...
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    interactive graphics – Tennis for Two – was created for an oscilloscope by William Higinbotham to entertain visitors in 1958 at Brookhaven National Laboratory and...
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    Amanda Burden, urban planner William Glackens (1870–1938), artist Felix Grucci, Fireworks by Grucci William Higinbotham (1910–1994), physicist at nearby...
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  • psychology; first American to be awarded a Doctor of Psychology William Higinbotham 1932, physicist; credited with creating the first video game Mahlon...
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  • becomes the first video game news magazine on the web. November 10 – William Higinbotham, creator of Tennis for Two (1958), dies at 84. Aiwa releases the...
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  • violin teacher Willie Heston (1878–1963), American football player William Higinbotham (1910–1994), American physicist and anti-nuclear proliferation activist...
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  • claim has been disputed. Vanity Fair reported that Miller assisted William Higinbotham, the head of the Manhattan Project's electronics group, in constructing...
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  • the United States. October 18 – Tennis for Two, a game invented by William Higinbotham and considered to be the first pure entertainment computer game,...
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    Aeroflot crash in the Soviet Union Tennis for Two, a game invented by William Higinbotham and considered to be the first video computer game, visible on an...
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  • Billiards. The earliest sports video game dates backs to 1958, when William Higinbotham created a game called Tennis for Two, a competitive two-player tennis...
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    division contained eleven groups headed by leaders who included William Higinbotham, Seth Neddermeyer, Edwin McMillan, Luis Alvarez and Otto Frisch....
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    Thomas Higinbotham (1819 – 5 September 1880), was an Irish-born civil engineer and civil servant, particularly associated with the development of railway...
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  • Thieves, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver William Higinbotham: Tennis for Two Yuji Horii: Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger Todd Howard:...
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  • Higinbotham Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1937 to 2006, with members serving...
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    scientific circles. The director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, William Higinbotham, personally came to Yugoslavia to see the computer. The computer...
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  • inventor Charles F. Ritchel, inventor Gustave Whitehead, inventor William Higinbotham, worked on the nuclear bomb, created one of the first video games...
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  • Richard Rust, 56, American actor (Sam Benedict), heart attack. William Higinbotham, 84, American physicist. Carmen McRae, 74, American jazz singer,...
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    Florence (née Higinbotham) Crane, and grandson of Richard T. Crane, founder of Crane Co. His maternal grandfather was Harlow Niles Higinbotham. He is best...
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