10 Facts About Isaac Shoenberg

Sir Isaac Shoenberg was a British electronic engineer born in Belarus who was best known for his role in the history of television.

Isaac Shoenberg was the head of the EMI research team that developed the 405-line, the first fully electronic television system to be used in regular broadcasting when it was introduced with the BBC Television Service in 1936.

Isaac Shoenberg was born on 1 March 1880 to Jewish parents in Pinsk, Imperial Russia and studied mathematics, mechanical engineering and electricity in St Petersburg.

In 1905, Isaac Shoenberg was employed to design and install the earliest wireless stations in Russia.

However, in 1914, Isaac Shoenberg decided to emigrate to London and join the Marconi Wireless and Telegraph Company.

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Isaac Shoenberg became general manager of the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1928.

Isaac Shoenberg was Blumlein's supervisor there when Blumlein invented stereophonic sound.

Isaac Shoenberg's team applied in 1932 for a patent for a new device they dubbed "the Emitron", which formed the heart of the cameras they designed for the BBC.

Isaac Shoenberg was awarded the IET Faraday Medal from the British Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1954 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1962.

Isaac Shoenberg died in London in 1963 and was buried in the Liberal Jewish Cemetery, Willesden, in the London Borough of Brent.