Vladimir K. Zworykin

✶July 30, 1889

†July 29, 1982

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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. He played a role in the practical development of television from the early thirties, including charge storage-type tubes, infrared image tubes and the electron microscope.

Russian-American engineer (1888–1982)

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