Background
Vladimir Zworykin was born on 29 July 1888 in Murom, Russia. His father was a prosperous merchant.
1940 - Vladimir Zworykin, better known as a co-inventor of television, demonstrates the first electron microscope in the United States.
Institute of Technology, St. Petersburg, Russia
University of Pittsburgh
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Vladimir Zworykin
Vladimir Zworykin, 1940s
1940 - Vladimir Zworykin, better known as a co-inventor of television, demonstrates the first electron microscope in the United States.
Vladimir Zworykin holding an iconoscope, an early all-electronic television camera tube invented in 1924.
Russian-American Heritage Museum - Vladimir Zworykin.
Edison Medal
IRE Medal of Honor
National Medal of Science
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VLADIMIR K. ZWORYKIN Vladimir K. Zworykin sends a typed letter of thanks for the pictures and Thanksgiving greetings. Typed Letter Signed: "V.K. Zworykin", 1p, 8½x11. RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey, 1970 October 26. To Marshall E. Bean, Saco, Maine. In full: "Please thank Stuart Nichols, John Ackerman, June Kimball, Dwight Patterson, Billy, Donna, and Mary for their pictures and Thanksgiving greetings, which I enjoyed very much. I am sure that all members of your class will make good progress this year and I am sending you and them best wishes for the coming Holiday season. Sincerely" Known as the "Father of Television", Russian-born American engineer Vladimir K. Zworykin was employed by Westinghouse (1924-1929) and RCA (1929-1954). He invented many electronic devices, including the iconoscope (1923) and kinescope (1929) that together constituted the first all-electronic television system. Erased pencil notes along top edge (unknown hand). Paper clip impression at top edge. Fine condition. - Please contact us if you have any questions or require additional information. HFSID 50080
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VLADIMIR K. ZWORYKIN Vladimir K. Zworykin signs a philatelic envelope honoring inventor Eli Whitney. Philatelic Envelope signed: "V.K. Zworykin", 6½x3½. First Day Cover honoring inventor Eli Whitney, pair of 1-cent stamps affixed, postmarked Savannah, Georgia, October 7, 1940, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE. Known as the "Father of Television", this Russian-born American engineer was employed by Westinghouse (1924-1929) and RCA (1929-1954). He invented many electronic devices, including the iconoscope (1923) and kinescope (1929) that together constituted the first all-electronic television system. Postage stamp size, horizontal shading just above signature. Pinhead-size stain at lower right corner. Fine condition. - Please contact us if you have any questions or require additional information. HFSID 16640
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Vladimir Zworykin was born on 29 July 1888 in Murom, Russia. His father was a prosperous merchant.
Early Education and Career Zworykin received a degree in electrical engineering from the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology in 1912 and a doctorate in physics in 1926 from the University of Pittsburgh.
Like many European intellectuals of the 20th century, Zworykin was driven to the United States by the recurrent religious persecution and political repression, which rocked Europe and Russia. He came to America in 1920, 3 years after the Russian Revolution, and joined the research staff of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Pittsburgh.
In 1930 he went to the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), where he was made director of the electronics research laboratory. The Race for Television Zworykin was one of the earliest pioneers in the development of television. Before he left the St. Petersburg laboratory of Boris Rosing in 1919, he had the germ of an idea for an improved television system. When he joined Westinghouse in 1920, he hoped to be able to continue his work but soon discovered that firm was interested only in radio research. He left Pittsburgh to join a small development company in Kansas but returned to Westinghouse in 1923, this time with the agreement that he could continue work on television.
According to an interview conducted for the RCA Engineers Collection, July 4, 1975, Zworykin details early developments with primitive geometric pictures generated as early as 1923. In that year he applied for a patent on his "Iconoscope," a device which transmitted television images quickly and sharply. It was perhaps the single most important breakthrough in the history of television development.
When Westinghouse transferred most of its radio research work to RCA in 1930, he moved over too and continued its development. A PBS documentary series, The American Experience titled "Who is Philo T. Farnsworth?" details the race to create a working television. According to the documentary, at the time of Zworykin's transfer to RCA, he met with fellow television pioneer Philo T. Farnsworth. Under the guise of a fellow-researcher, Zworykin spent three days in Farnsworth's lab, and was given almost total access to Farnsworth's technology.
After his return to New York, Zworykin's work incorporated many of the innovations that he'd seen at Farnsworth's lab. Zworykin and Farnsworth battled in court for many years before patents were awarded to both men in the 1930's.
But RCA had the marketing might and money to prevail. In 1929, David Sarnoff, Chairman of RCA asked Zworykin how much he thought it would cost to develop a workable system, and Zworykin estimated "$100, 000." It ended up costing RCA $40, 000, 000 before they began turning a profit. Television broadcasts were available in limited areas, at limited times in Berlin, London, Russia and the US prior to World War II. Commercial television was authorized in the United States in 1940, but its growth was held up by World War II. Ironically, Zworykin was unimpressed by the television programming available, terming it in a 1981 interview as "awful".
During the war Zworykin, like many scientists who specialized in electronics, played an important role in developing new weapons for the military. He served on the Scientific Advisory Board to the Commanding General of the U. S. Army Air Force, as well as on the Ordnance Advisory Committee on Guided Missiles. At the same time he personally directed important research work and served on three subcommittees of the National Defense Research Committee.
In 1947 he became a vice president of RCA and technical consultant to the RCA Laboratories Division, positions he held until 1954.
While most of his career was spent developing television and its electrical components, Zworykin spent his time after retirement from RCA in 1954 as Director of Medical Research at the Medical Electronics Center at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University) until 1962.
Zworykin died on his 94th birthday, July 29, 1982 in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Although Vladimir Zworykin was proud on the technology of his invention, he was very dissatisfied with the violence and the senseless programs that the networks were broadcasting regularly using it.
Quotations: "I hate what they've done to my child...I would never let my own children watch it." - Vladimir Zworykin on his feelings about watching television.
Zworykin married Tatiana Vasilieff around 1915 and had two children. He emigrated with his family to the United States in 1919, becoming a US citizen in 1924. He was divorced from Vasilieff and married Katherine Polevitsky in 1951. Zworykin died on July 29, 1982 at the age of 93.