Murom is an ancient city dating back to the 9th century. Today it has a population of about 108,000.
Vladimir K. Zworykin (c.1888–1982) was born here. He was an inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin developed a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode-ray tubes and played an important role in the practical development of television from the early 1930s. His work included charge-storage tubes, infrared image tubes, and contributions to the development of the electron microscope.
Zworykin studied at the Saint Petersburg Institute of Technology with Boris Rosing. Together they experimented with television in Rosing’s private laboratory at the School of Artillery in Saint Petersburg. Their work focused on what was then called “electrical telescopy,” an early term for television. Rosing had filed his first patent for a television system in 1907, and his demonstration in 1911 is considered the world’s first demonstration of television of any kind.
Zworykin left Russia during the Russian Civil War in 1918. He later worked at the laboratories of Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh, where he was able to continue his television experiments. He applied for a television patent in the United States in 1923. In 1930 he moved to the Camden laboratories of RCA to continue his work on television. Major breakthroughs followed, and public television broadcasting began in 1935.
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