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Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 [a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris.
History of television. Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 November 2024. Scottish inventor, known for first demonstrating television (1888–1946) John Logie Baird FRSE Baird in 1917 Born (1888-08-13) 13 August 1888 Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland Died 14 June 1946 (1946-06-14) (aged 57) Bexhill, Sussex, England Resting place Baird family grave in ...
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin[b] (1888/1889 [a] – July 29, 1982 [7]) was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode-ray tubes. He played a role in the practical development of television from the early thirties, including charge ...
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. [2][3] He made the critical contributions to electronic television that made possible all the video in the world today. [4] He is best known for his 1927 invention of the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video ...
January 30 - Don Brockett, U.S. actor (died 1995) February 8 - Alejandro Rey, Argentinian-born actor (The Flying Nun) (died 1987) February 10 - Robert Wagner, U.S. actor (It Takes a Thief, Switch, Hart to Hart) February 27 - Joanne Woodward, U.S. actress. March 22. Pat Robertson, televangelist (died 2023)
Mechanical TV usually only produced small images. It was the main type of TV until the 1930s. Vacuum tube television, first demonstrated in September 1927 in San Francisco by Philo Farnsworth, and then publicly by Farnsworth at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1934, was rapidly overtaking
screenwriiter. producer. actress. Years active. 1930–1972. Children. 2. Irna Phillips (July 1, 1901 – December 23, 1973) was an American scriptwriter, screenwriter, casting agent and actress. She is best remembered for pioneering a format of the daytime soap opera in the United States geared specifically toward women.