Who invented the color tv? Plasma?

Answer 1

Exerpts from this site:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_invented_the_color_television

The real inventor of the color television was Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena (1917-1965), a Mexican national from Guadalajara Jalisco. His project was rejected by the Mexican authorities and had to go to the United States.

In 1934 he made his first TV when he was 17 years old, later he patented his color TV in Mexico and the US. From there the invention went to different parts of the world.

He invented the first color TX and first TV XEG. He holds the design and pattent to color television systems from 1940, 1942, 1960 and 1962.

In 1940 at the age of 22, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena obtained US Patent #2,296,022 for his Trichromatic system used for color television transmissions.

In August 31, 1946 he sent his first color transmition from his lab in the offices of The Mexican League of Radio Experiments in Lucerna St. #1, in Mexico City. The video signal was transmited in 115 MHz. and the audio in a band of 40 meters.

RCA claims they did it in 1946 but Camarena's patent has an earlier month. Also, there are previous attempts or designs but none worked properly. Camarena's was the first succesful one, therefore, the first.


"General" Sarnoff over at RCA literally beat-up his engineers until they came up with a fully compatible all electronic color system that actually worked, most of the time at least.(See second Color Television Issue of the IRE, March 1954 (give or take a few months, like this was a long time ago and I drink a lot :). It was and remains, an engineering, mathematical, and technological marvel. Encoding "colors" on phase-modulated sub-carriers wow, who'd of thunk of that? Zenith Radio Corporation et al. are given credit for contributions to the development of the tri-color Kinescope (Picture Tube) that made all this possible.

In an era where everything is obsolete in 6 months, think about it, this system has served us to the present day, more than 50 years. We'll get rid of it over-the-air at least, in March 2006 to go all digital. It will likely survive in some form for several more years. Technically this system is known as RS-170A and interestingly is a standard that was never officially accepted by the FCC.

Here is a link about who and when the prototype plasma display was made.
http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/plasmaTV.htm

Even I was surprised at the fact this idea has been around since 1964.

Answer 2

Neither is a single invention. There is a long series of inventions that produced both. I suggest you go to wikipedia and look up both subjects.

Answer 3

A team of engineers created the Color TV standard from the RCA LABs back in the 1950's.....Although Sarnak is given the credit...but he was NOT an engineer, he was the president of RCA.

Whatta Jerk he was....

Well guess what.....The GHOST of Sarnak rises in plasma-land....(just wait and see)

OoooOOoooh.....OhhHhh......I want my M Tee Veeee (chains clanking)

Answer 4

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