Oct 22, 2009 - Sale 2191

Sale 2191 - Lot 189

Price Realized: $ 15,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
SIGHT AND SOUND THROUGH THE AIR (TELEVISION)
Archive containing more than 125 photographs, including 2 albums and a binder documenting V. K. Zworykin's early experiments with television transmission. With Zworykin's personal photograph album containing 95 photographs, several depicting RCA lab screen images (including pictures of Mickey Mouse) and Zworykin himself; his wedding album; and a binder of photographs from the archive of J.P. Smith, who worked with David Sarnoff, of the NBC studios. Additional photographs depicting a gigantic telelvision receiver, the Dumont Television Remote TV Van, and the first TV Dinner Photograph (licensees of RCA); an original transcript of David Sarnoff's "Television Statement to the Press" (dated Nov. 6, 1936), and other fascinating ephemera also included. 1930s-1940s
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Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin (1889-1982), a scientist and engineer, was a Russian-American pioneer of television technology. Zworykin worked with David Sarnoff at the RCA Corporation, where he invented a TV transmitting and receiving system that employed cathode ray tubes. Some even credit him with the invention of television.


The subsequent popularization of television was anathema to Zworykin, who apparently wrote: "I hate what they've done to my child . . . I would never let my own children watch it."