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1923

Zworykin Patent Application

1923 | December 29 – Russian born American inventor Vladimir Zworykin applied for a US patent for an electronic camera tube, the “Iconoscope”. He didn’t receive the patent until thirteen years later! By the end of 1923 he had also produced a picture display tube, the “Kinescope”, an all-electronic television system.


Vladimir K. Zworykin and his filed patent application


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