Rosing, Boris

SUBJECT AREA: Broadcasting, Electronics and information technology

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fl. c. 1907 St Petersburg, Russia

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Russian scientist who made early experiments in television.

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In 1907, while Professor at St Petersburg Technological Institute, Rosing proposed the use of the Braun tube as a television display in conjunction with a photoelectric cell and double mirrordrum scanning system as a pick-up device. Four years later he was apparently able to transmit faint and very crude static pictures.

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Bibliography

1907, British patent no. 27,570.

Further Reading

C.J.Hylander \& R Harding, 1941, An Introduction to Television.

R.W.Hubbell, 1946, 4,000 Years of Television, London: G.Harrap \& Sons.

See also: Baird, John Logie; Ives, Herbert Eugene; Jenkins, Charles Francis; Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma

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