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​** **​ Vladimir Zworykin**
 * The inventor I studied was Vladimir Zworykin. He was famous for inventing the kinescope and iconscope, parts that go into the electronic TV. He was born in 1889 in Murom, Russia and died in 1982.

Vladimir was the youngest of seven children and grew up in a big mansion. When he was young he played jokes on people, hiked, played in the woods, and did well in school. Several of Vladimir's family members were engineers, this was the source of his inspiration.

Vladimir attended college at St. Petersburg Institute of Technology, where he studied electrical engineering. He studied under Professor Boris Rosing, who designed a way of using the cathode-ray tube to reproduce pictures. Vladimir was excited at the possibilities. Vladimir graduated from St. Petersburg with a degree in 1912. He then attende College de France from 1912 to 1914. He then moved on to the University of Pittsburg PA where he got his PHD.

Vladimir married Tatiana Vasilieff in 1916. He had two children with her but divorced later on. He then married Katherine Polevitsky in 1951.

Vladimir had many different jobs before he created his inventions. One of his jobs was working as an apprentice on the boats his father owned and operated on the Oka River. At the age of 9 he started to repair electrical equipment on the boats. He also served in the Signal Corps in Russia during W.W.I. He imigrated to the U.S. in 1919, and in 1924 worked as a book keeper and financil agent.

He worked, and spent time at many different places throughout his career. In 1920 he did electronics research at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. in Pittsburg Pa. After that he was a researcher at the Electronice Devices Firm in Kansas. In 1923, he patented his Kinescope while in Pittsburg, PA and in 1924 patented the color TV. Later on Vladimir was hired as associate research dirctor in the lab of electronic research. (RCA) In Camden, NJ

Valdimir helped the science field by inventing the iconscope in 1923, and the kinescope in 1924. These basic types of technology lead to the worldwide adaption to electronic TV, instead of mechanical TV's ( mechanical TV worked by using synchronized moving parts to generate moving pictures).

The iconoscope and kinescope were special kinds of cathode-ray tubes that shot a steady stream of charged particles. This is how ecectronic TV works.

Vladimir Zworykin specialized in the field of technology. The iconoscope worked by producing pictures by scanning images. The kinescope worked by reproducing scanned images on a picture tube. Electronic TV was now possible, but Westinghouse executives did not pursue his research. So Vladimir went to RCA and was hired associative research lab in NJ. Vladimir soon filed patent for color TV.

Vladimir's goal was to create a perfect working electronic color TV. He did accomplish this goal, thanks to his invention of the kinescope and iconoscope.

Something interesting and unbelievable he said was: "I hate what they've done to my child, I would never let my own children watch it."-Vladimir and his opinon on the TV.

I think Vladimir Zworykin's accomplishments were very important to the good of the world. If it weren't for his invention of the kinescope and iconoscope we wouldn't have the electronic TV we do today.



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