26 Facts About Vladimir Zworykin

Vladimir Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode ray tubes.

Vladimir Zworykin played a role in the practical development of television from the early thirties, including charge storage-type tubes, infrared image tubes and the electron microscope.

Vladimir Kosmich Zworykin was born in Murom, Russia, in 1888, on July 29, to the family of a prosperous merchants.

Vladimir Zworykin had a relatively calm upbringing, and he rarely saw his father except on religious holidays.

Vladimir Zworykin studied at the St Petersburg Institute of Technology, under Boris Rosing.

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Vladimir Zworykin helped Rosing with experimental work on television in the basement of Rosing's private lab at the School of Artillery of Saint Petersburg.

Vladimir Zworykin did not know that others had been studying the idea since the 1880s, or that Professor Rosing had been working on it in secret since 1902 and had made excellent progress.

Vladimir Zworykin then studied X-rays under professor Paul Langevin in Paris.

Vladimir Zworykin then worked testing radio equipment that was being produced for the Russian Army.

Vladimir Zworykin left Russia for the United States in 1918 during the Russian Civil War.

Vladimir Zworykin left through Siberia, travelling north on the River Ob to the Arctic Ocean as part of an expedition led by Russian scientist Innokenty P Tolmachev, eventually arriving in the US at the end of 1918.

Vladimir Zworykin returned to Omsk, then capital of Admiral Kolchak's government in 1919, via Vladivostok, then to the United States again on official duties from the Omsk government.

Once in the U S, Zworykin found work at the Westinghouse laboratories in Pittsburgh where he eventually had an opportunity to engage in television experiments.

Vladimir Zworykin summarized the resulting invention in two patent applications.

Vladimir Zworykin was awarded a patent for the 1925 application in 1928, and two patents for the 1923 application that was divided in 1931, although the equipment described was never successfully demonstrated.

Vladimir Zworykin described cathode ray tubes as both transmitter and receiver.

Demonstration given by Vladimir Zworykin was far from a success with the Westinghouse management, even though it showed the possibilities inherent in a system based on the cathode ray tube.

Vladimir Zworykin was told by management to "devote his time to more practical endeavours, " yet continued his efforts to perfect his system.

Vladimir Zworykin received a patent in 1928 for a color transmission version of his 1923 patent application; he divided his original application in 1931, receiving a patent in 1935, while a second one was eventually issued in 1938 by the Court of Appeals on a non-Farnsworth-related interference case, and over the objection of the Patent Office.

Vladimir Zworykin's wife was Katherine Polevitzky, a Russian-born professor of bacteriology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Vladimir Zworykin was awarded the Howard N Potts Medal from The Franklin Institute in 1947.

In 1967, Vladimir Zworykin received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.

Vladimir Zworykin was founder-president of the International Federation for Medical Electronics and Biological Engineering, a recipient of the Faraday Medal from Great Britain, and a member of the U S National Hall of Fame from 1977.

Vladimir Zworykin received the first Eduard Rhein Ring of Honor from the German Eduard Rhein Foundation in 1980.

Vladimir Zworykin was inducted into the New Jersey Inventor's Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

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Vladimir Zworykin is listed in the Russian-American Chamber of Fame of Congress of Russian Americans, which is dedicated to Russian immigrants who made outstanding contributions to American science or culture.