GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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INVENTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What invention is credited to the Russian born American inventor Vladimir Kosma Zworykin?
A
Telegraph
B
Radio
C
Television
D
Dishwasher
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Vladimir Zworykin, in full Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, (born July 29 [July 17, Old Style], 1888, Murom, Russia-died July 29, 1982, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.), Russian-born American electronic engineer and inventor of the iconoscope and kinescope television systems.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1924, he created the iconoscope, the first practical, all-electronic television camera tube. In 1929 he invented an important part of the receiver called the kinescope, a cathode-ray picture tube.

Detailed explanation-3: -On November 18, 1929, at a convention of radio engineers, Zworykin demonstrated a television receiver containing his “kinescope, ‘’ a cathode-ray tube. That same year Zworykin joined the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in Camden, New Jersey.

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