Dr. Vladimir Zworykin Showing a Vidicon Television Camera Tube, 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. Here he presents a Vidicon camera tube, to be donated to the museum. Vidicon tubes allowed bulky, expensive broadcast television cameras to become smaller and cheaper beginning in the 1950s. Zworykin's iconoscope and kinescope picture tubes were breakthroughs in television history.
Vladimir Zworykin was an early pioneer of television development, employed by Westinghouse and the Radio Corporation of America. Here he presents a Vidicon camera tube, to be donated to the museum. Vidicon tubes allowed bulky, expensive broadcast television cameras to become smaller and cheaper beginning in the 1950s. Zworykin's iconoscope and kinescope picture tubes were breakthroughs in television history.
Artifact
Negative (Photograph)
Subject Date
30 April 1958
Creators
Unknown
Keywords
United States, Michigan, Dearborn
Television (Telecommunication system)
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.1929.2691
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
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