1889-1982,
Television Pioneer

The Importance of Technology.

Along with Philo Farnsworth, Vladimir Zworykin developed the technology that made television possible. Because of the success of his technology and the company who produced i t , Zworykin is known as the father of television.

A Russian Beginning.

Zworykin was born near Moscow in 1889, graduating from the equivalent of high school in 1906. He received his electrical engineering degree in 1912 from the Saint Petersburg Institute of Technology, where he remained to study under Boris Rosing, one of the early scientists who developed the idea of television. Later in 1912 he traveled to France, where he studied physics until the outbreak of World War I. After the war, during which he was a signal officer working on radio, Zworykin escaped the Russian Revolution by immigrating to the United States. He eventually found work at the Westinghouse unit of the Radio Corporation of...