Dr. Vladimir Zworykin with a Portable Television Camera, Dearborn, Michigan, 1958
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Vladimir Zworykin was an early pioneer of television development, employed by Westinghouse and the Radio Corporation of America. Zworykin's iconoscope and kinescope picture tubes were breakthroughs in television history. Together they allowed electronic television to become a viable technology. Zworykin also headed the creation of the electron microscope and infrared tubes used in night vision "sniperscopes" during WWII.
Vladimir Zworykin was an early pioneer of television development, employed by Westinghouse and the Radio Corporation of America. Zworykin's iconoscope and kinescope picture tubes were breakthroughs in television history. Together they allowed electronic television to become a viable technology. Zworykin also headed the creation of the electron microscope and infrared tubes used in night vision "sniperscopes" during WWII.
Artifact
Negative (Photograph)
Subject Date
30 April 1958
Keywords
United States, Michigan, Dearborn
Television (Telecommunication system)
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.1929.2692
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
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