Zworykin, Pioneer of Television(English, Hardcover, Abramson Albert)

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Zworykin, Pioneer of Television(English, Hardcover, Abramson Albert) is written by Abramson Albert and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252021045 (ISBN 10) and 9780252021046 (ISBN 13).

Using patents, published and unpublished documents, and interviews with television pioneers including Zworykin himself, Abramson reconstructs the inventor's life from his early years in Russia,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."