Using patents, published and unpublished documents, and interviews with television pioneers including Zworykin himself, Abramson reconstructs the inventor's life from his early years in Russia, through his stay as RCA's technical guru under David Sarnoff, to his death in 1982. More than fifty photographs show highlights of Zworykin's work. Abramson notes the contributions of other scientists--particularly Zworykin's biggest rival, Philo T. Farnsworth--to the advancement of television. However, he argues, it was Zworykin's ...
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Using patents, published and unpublished documents, and interviews with television pioneers including Zworykin himself, Abramson reconstructs the inventor's life from his early years in Russia, through his stay as RCA's technical guru under David Sarnoff, to his death in 1982. More than fifty photographs show highlights of Zworykin's work. Abramson notes the contributions of other scientists--particularly Zworykin's biggest rival, Philo T. Farnsworth--to the advancement of television. However, he argues, it was Zworykin's inventions that made modern, all-electronic television possible, causing many to award him the title "father of television". "His achievements rank him with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell," states Albert Abramson in this discerning, often dramatic biography of Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, the Russian-born scientist who "did more to create our present system of cathode-ray television than any other person."
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 319 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 94007464 Type of material Book Personal name Abramson, Albert. Main title Zworykin, pioneer of television / Albert Abramson; foreword by Erik Barnouw. Published/Created Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1995. Description xviii, 319 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 0252021045 (acid-free paper) LC classification TK6635. Z93 A63 1995 LC Subjects Zworykin, V. K. (Vladimir Kosma), 1888-Inventors--United States--Biography. Television--United States--Biography. Television--History. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-301) and index. Dewey class no. 621.388/0092 B Geographic area code n-us---
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VG+ in VG+ jacket. Octavo. Maroon cloth covered boards and spine with shiny silver foil lettering on the spine. Book has light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 319 pages. Illustrated with some photographs and a couple diagrams. Dust Jacket-has a trace of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the corners. Just a trace of rubbing along the upper and lower edges of the covers. 1/8" chip in the rear corner of the tail of the spine. Not perfect but a nice overall appearance.
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