Questions:
What did he do and why is he important?
How did they interact with each other?
Who Questions ask about:
David Sarnoff
Vladimir Zworykin
Philo Farnsworth
David Sarnoff
When he was just 15 he was forced to find a full time job since his fathers health was going very badly the wrong way. He was the CEO of RCA. Sarnoff had to pay Philo one million dollars in royalties since Philo had a patent on broadcasting of motion pictures. During the sinking of the titanic he falsely says that he stayed by his telegraph for 3 days waiting to hear more news about the boat and who all had survived if any had. Also he said that he was the only person on air after president Taft ordered all broadcasters to be silent about the accident. David also helped out Vladimir Zworykin when he came to David with the idea of an electrical camera. During World War II Sarnoff helped win the war by inventing the sonar and radar.
Philo Farnsworth
He was an inventor who is called the f
orgotten father of television. The first crude television image was created from the Farnsworth system when a photograph of a young woman the Philo knew was transmitted in the San Francisco Green Street laboratory on 7 September 1927. To one of the machines that the lab contained. The first patents for the Farnsworth television system were filed January 1927. In the year 1931 Philo decided to move to Philadelphia to set up a television company or a base for Philco. Also He was payed a sum on 1 million dollar from David Sarnoff when David used his invention for many years without permission and not paying for the patent.
Vladimir Zworykin
Called the true "Father Of Television". He created the iconoscope and the kinescope, In 1920 Zworykin joined the company Westinghouse to work on their development of radio tubes and photocells. During the time he spent there, he earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pittsburgh. For while he worked with David Sarnoff at RCA during his stay their he told David Sarnoff that it would take almost $100,000 to perfect television. Sarnoff later told a newspaper, "We spent much more then that we spent almost $50 million before we ever got a penny back from TV."
David Sarnoff
Vladimir Zworykin
Philo Farnsworth
David Sarnoff When he was just 15 he was forced to find a full time job since his fathers health was going very badly the wrong way. He was the CEO of RCA. Sarnoff had to pay Philo one million dollars in royalties since Philo had a patent on broadcasting of motion pictures. During the sinking of the titanic he falsely says that he stayed by his telegraph for 3 days waiting to hear more news about the boat and who all had survived if any had. Also he said that he was the only person on air after president Taft ordered all broadcasters to be silent about the accident. David also helped out Vladimir Zworykin when he came to David with the idea of an electrical camera. During World War II Sarnoff helped win the war by inventing the sonar and radar.Philo Farnsworth
He was an inventor who is called the f
orgotten father of television. The first crude television image was created from the Farnsworth system when a photograph of a young woman the Philo knew was transmitted in the San Francisco Green Street laboratory on 7 September 1927. To one of the machines that the lab contained. The first patents for the Farnsworth television system were filed January 1927. In the year 1931 Philo decided to move to Philadelphia to set up a television company or a base for Philco. Also He was payed a sum on 1 million dollar from David Sarnoff when David used his invention for many years without permission and not paying for the patent.Vladimir Zworykin
Called the true "Father Of Television". He created the iconoscope and the kinescope, In 1920 Zworykin joined the company Westinghouse to work on their development of radio tubes and photocells. During the time he spent there, he earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pittsburgh. For while he worked with David Sarnoff at RCA during his stay their he told David Sarnoff that it would take almost $100,000 to perfect television. Sarnoff later told a newspaper, "We spent much more then that we spent almost $50 million before we ever got a penny back from TV."
