Later Life
After the great success of KDKA, Conrad turned his attention to the world of shortwave radio. In 1928, Frank Conrad demonstrated a movie-film-to-television converter at Westinghouse. He also received an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Pittsburgh that year.
Conrad received numerous awards for his pioneering work, most notably the Edison Medal from the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, now IEEE, in 1930.
He retired from Westinghouse in 1940, and died while on vacation, December 11, 1941, four days after Pearl Harbor.
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