(1906 – 1977)

Engineer.‘Father of color television’.

 In 1936, he joined CBS Laboratories, where he developed a technology for color televisions. The system was first demonstrated on August 29, 1940, and used a rapidly rotating color wheel that alternated transmission in red, green and blue. He spent the next two decades at CBS Laboratories working on various inventions.

Invented: technology for color television (1936).

Credited with: EVR (Electronic Video Recorder).