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Part 1 of 3: Acres, Birt to Franklin, Ben

Part 2 of 3: Galvani, Luigi to Muybridge, Eadweard

Part 3 of 3: Nipkow, Paul to Zworykin, Vladamir


Nipkow, Paul Gottlieb

Biography

The Nipkow Mechanical Television System, 1884

Related Essays

The Nipkow Disk
Early / Mechanical Television Systems - by Richard Kadrey


Oersted, Hans Christian

Biography

Hans Christian Ørsted - c.1830


Ohm, Georg Simon

Biography

Georg Simon Ohm - a likeness - c.1826


Onesti, Temistocle Calzecchi

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Paris, John Ayrton

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Pathé, Charles

Biography

Cinematograph Camera by Charles Pathé - c.1895


Paul, Robert William

Biography

Robert Paul and Birt Acre's 'Kineopticon' Camera - c.1895
Frames from Robert Paul's first 'Kinetoscope' film made in England - c.1895


Pepper, 'Professor' John Henry

Biography - updated 01/00


Perosino, Carlo (not as previously Peresino)

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Perry,

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Perskyi, Constantin

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Pickard, G. W. (Greenleaf Whittier)

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Pierce, George Washington

Biography


Plateau, Joseph Antoine Ferdinand

Biography

Motion Picture Show - Toy
A Phenakistiscope Animation - c.1840


Pliny, The Elder

Biography


Plucker, Julius

Biography

Julius Plucker


Popov, Alexander Stepanovitch

Biography

Alexander Popov - c.1900
Alexander Popov - c.1900


Porta, Giambattista Della

Biography

Related Web Sites (Active as of 8/98)

Natural Magick


Poulsen, Valdemar

Biography

Poulsen in his Laboratory - 1900
Valdemar Poulsen - 1915
Vlademar Polsen and P.O. Pedersen - 1915
Valdemar Poulsen - 1930
Valdemar Poulsen - 1930

Related Essays

The Poulsen Arc Transmitter - by Hans Buhl
Experiments with "Singing Arc" and Tesla Coil - by W. Moeller
The Wire Recorder: A Brief History - by David Morton
The Telegraphone and the Lusitania - by Chris Bacon
The Telegraphone and the Movies - Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers


Preece, Sir William H.

Biography


Ptolemy

Biography


Pupin, Michael (Mihailo Idvorsky)

Biography

Michael Pupin - c.1925


Redmond, Denis

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Reis, Johann Philipp

Biography


Reynaud, Charles-Émile

Biography - major update in preparation

Reynaud's Praxinoscope - 1878


Righi, Augusto

Biography

Augusto Righi - 1910


Ritter, Simon

Biography - incl. a major essay by Dean P. Currier


Robert, Etienne Gaspard ('Robertson')

Biography


Roget, Peter Mark

Biography


Ronalds, Sir Francis

Biography


Rosa, Prof. Vincenzo

Biography


Rosing, Boris

Biography

Rosing's Television System using a Cathode-Ray Tube Receiver - 1907


Round, Henry Joseph

Biography


Ruhmkorff, Heinrich Daniel

Biography

Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff - c.1850
'Ruhmkorff's Coil' - 1851
'Ruhmkorff's Coil' - 1851 (alternate photo - colour)

Related Essays

Heinrich Ruhmkorff's Spark-Coil


Salva, Francisco

Biography


Sanabria, Ulises

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Sarnoff, David

Biography

Sarnoff at the Siasconset station on Nantucket - c. 1908
David Sarnoff - 1917
Sarnoff and Marconi at RCA's New York Transmitter - 1933
David Sarnoff - c.1940


Sawyer, W. E.

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Schweigger, Johann

Biography - incl. a major essay by Dean P. Currier


Seebeck, Thomas Johann

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Seguin, Pierre

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?

Polyrama Panoptique, c.1860


Sellers, Coleman

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Senlecq, Constantine

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Shockley, Dr. William Bradford

Biography


Shoenberg, Sir Isaac

Biography


Skladanowsky, Max

Biography


Slaby, Adolphus

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Smith, George Albert

Biography


Smith, Willoughby

Biography


Sommering, S. T.

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Stokes, Sir George Gabriel

Biography

George Gabriel Stokes


Stone, John Stone

Biography


Stoney, George Johnstone

Biography


Strutt, John William, (later Lord Rayleigh)

Biography


Stubblefield, Nathan

Biography


Sturgeon, William

Biography


Sutton, Henry

Biography


Swan, Sir Joseph Wilson

Biography

Joseph Wilson Swan - a likeness - 1894


Takayanagi, Kenjiro

Biography


Tesla, Nikola

Biography

Nikola Tesla - c.1880
Nikola Tesla - c.1890
Tesla in his laboratory - c.1910
Nikola Tesla - c.1933
Nikola Tesla - c.1933

Related Web Sites (Active as of 8/98)

Nikola Tesla: inventor, engineer, scientist
Nicola Tesla Museum (Belgrade)
Nikola Tesla Page, Tesla coils
Twenty First Century Books - Tesla Specialist Mail Order bookstore - Gary L. Peterson
Tesla - The Lost Inventions
Tesla's Transformer


Thales, of Miletus

Biography


Thompson, J.J. (Sir Joseph John)

Biography

J.J. Thompson - c.1895
J.J. Thompson - c.1895
Thompson and Sir Ernest Rutherford - c.1915
J.J. Thompson - c.1930

Related Web Sites (Active as of 8/98)

J.J. Thomson and the Discovery of the Electron


Thompson, William, (later Lord Kelvin)

Biography

William Thompson - c.1850
William Thompson - c.1850
William Thompson
William Thompson
William Thompson
Thompson and Lord Raleigh


Tihanyi, Kálmán

Biography


van Musschenbroek, Pieter

Biography - incl. a major essay by Dean P. Currier


von Guericke, Otto

Biography


von Kleist, Ewald Christian

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


von Siemens, Ernst Werner

Biography


von Stampfer, Simon

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


von Uchatius, Baron Franz

Biography


Volta, Count Alessandro Giuseppe Anastasio

Biography

Alessandro Volta


Weiller, Lazare

Biography Incomplete - Can you assist?


Wheatstone, Sir Charles

Biography

Charles Wheatstone, c.1840


Wollaston, William Hyde

Biography - incl. a major essay by Dean P. Currier


Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma

Biography

Vladamir Zworykin, 1929

Related Essays

Vladimir Zworykin, The 1975 Interview Abstract
Vladimir Zworykin, The 1975 Interview
The Restelli Collection - Zworykin : his personal photo album


Despite digital restoration, many of the images above are of less than ideal quality. Should better copies come to hand, the files will be updated. Meanwhile some 1000 more images are currently being prepared for the next major update to this and other 'image' based pages. (proposed for early to mid 1998)

As time permits, the intention is to also add sound files to this page. Once again, these files will be of varying quality depending on the original recording and 'number of generations removed' my copy is from the original.

April, 1997

This project is still being continued (post doctorate) and will attempt to indeed add further material as time permits. Thankyou.

December, 1999.


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