Vladimir Kosma Zworykin

Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, is generally known as the inventor of the camera tube but even now this is still a delicate statement, knowing that Philo Farnsworth developed almost the same also a camera tube. Zworykin became inspired in his student time, around 1910, when he helped his professor Boris Rosing with a private project, trying transmitting pictures with a primitive Braun tube.
Zworykin eventually became director of RCA's electronics research laboratory.
If you want to know more about Zworykin, visit the site of Steve Restelli.
The Restelli collection is the most complete biography of mr. Zworykin.
Philo Farnsworth drew his first TV ideas on the blackboard of his school at an age of fourteen, and eventually sold his tube patent after a battle to the mighty RCA.

                                                                  Philo Taylor Farnsworth

                                                                       1906-1971

                                                               Vladimir Kosma Zworykin

                                                                   1889-1982