17 Facts About Arnold Spielberg

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Arnold Meyer Spielberg was an American electrical engineer who was instrumental in contributions "to real-time data acquisition and recording that significantly contributed to the definition of modern feedback and control processes".

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Arnold Spielberg cites as his greatest contribution the first computer-controlled "point of sale" cash register.

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Arnold Spielberg's children include filmmaker Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Anne Spielberg.

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Arnold Spielberg was born in Cincinnati on February 6,1917.

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Arnold Spielberg's mother, Rebecca, was born in Sudylkiv, Ukraine; his father, Samuel, was born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine.

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Arnold Spielberg scrounged parts from garbage cans to assemble his first crystal receiver.

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Arnold Spielberg married concert pianist Leah Posner in January 1945.

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In 1960, Arnold Spielberg traveled to Moscow as part of a delegation of electrical engineers from Phoenix.

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Steven Arnold Spielberg described the event his father experienced at the time:.

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When RCA entered the computer field, Arnold Spielberg began doing early circuit designs implementing computer logic.

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Arnold Spielberg designed and patented the first electronic library system, implemented as an interrogation system for data stored on an array of magnetic tapes.

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In 1957, Arnold Spielberg began working for General Electric, where he was instrumental in developing the GE-200 series of computers.

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Arnold Spielberg retired in 1991 but continued consultation work for technology companies.

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Arnold Spielberg worked with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, an organization founded by his son Steven.

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Arnold Spielberg had four children with his first wife Leah: son Steven and daughters Anne, Nancy, and Sue.

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Arnold Spielberg died from natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, California, on August 25,2020, at the age of 103.

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Steven Arnold Spielberg's 2022 film The Fabelmans is a fictionalized account of his own childhood, and features Paul Dano as engineer Burt Fabelman, the protagonist's father.