Inventor of television

Do you like watching television programs? If yes, then you will be interested to know that the inventor of television was born in the city of Murom, Vladimir region. Vladimir Kozmich Zvorykin was born into a wealthy merchant family. His father was a merchant of the first guild, a steamboat, had 4 steamboats. And so one of the sons had to become an engineer to monitor their condition.

And since Volodya from an early age loved technology, showed the ability to exact sciences, his fate was determined. Interestingly, while still a student of a real school, he helped a physics teacher, “pulled up” his classmates in the exact sciences. After school, Volodya leaves for St. Petersburg, where he graduates from the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology and, literally, “sickens” with the idea of transmitting a signal at a distance. But the revolution broke out and Vladimir Kozmich emigrated to America. And there, he patents the kinescope, the iconoscope is the basis of our television receiver. Zworykin is sometimes called a “Russian gift to America.”

Americans still call him the father of television. Such an interesting person was born and spent his youth in Murom. Having come to his homeland, everyone will be able to learn a lot more interesting about his fate. In Murom, the Zworykin family house has been preserved, a monument to the inventor has recently appeared.