History of Television - Television Inventors/pioneers

Television Inventors/pioneers

Important people in the development of TV technology in the 19th or 20th centuries.

  • Manfred von Ardenne
  • John Logie Baird
  • Alan Blumlein
  • Walter Bruch (PAL television)
  • Guillermo González Camarena
  • Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton
  • Assis Chateaubriand
  • Allen B. DuMont
  • Philo Taylor Farnsworth
  • Boris Grabovsky
  • Charles Francis Jenkins
  • Siegmund and David Loewe, founders of Loewe AG in 1923
  • Lubo Micic
  • Earl Muntz
  • Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
  • Constantin Perskyi
  • Boris Rosing
  • Ulises Armand Sanabria
  • David Sarnoff
  • Kenjiro Takayanagi
  • Léon Theremin
  • Kálmán Tihanyi
  • Vladimir Zworykin

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