Hovannes Adamian
Hovannes Adamian | |
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Հովհաննես Ադամյան | |
Leningrad, Soviet Union | |
Nationality | Armenian |
Known for | Inventor of color television |
Hovhannes (Ivan) Abgari Adamian (5 February 1879 – 12 September 1932) was an Armenian engineer, an author of more than 20 inventions. The first experimental color television was shown in London in 1928 based on Adamian's tricolor principle,[1] and he is recognized as one of the founders of color television.[2]
Biography
Adamian was born in a family of an
In 1925 in Yerevan, Adamian demonstrated "Eristavi", a device for broadcasting color images. Supported by his friends and assistants from Armenia, he succeeded in demonstrating on a screen a number of color figures and patterns transferred from the laboratory next door.[2]
In 1913, Adamian returned to Saint Petersburg, Russia. He had several long-term trips to Armenia before dying in 1932 in Leningrad. He was buried in the local Armenian cemetery and, in 1970, his remains were brought to Yerevan, to the Pantheon of famous Armenians.
References
- ^ "Адамян Ованес Абгарович". Great Soviet Encyclopedia (in Russian). Retrieved 2017-02-28.
- ^ a b c A. Rokhlin, Tak rozhdalos' dal'novidenie (in Russian) Archived 2013-04-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Russes, slaves et soviétiques : pages d'histoire offertes à Roger Portal, Céline Gervais-Francelle, 1992, p. 387
- ^ Western technology and Soviet economic development: 1945 to 1965, by Antony C. Sutton, Business & Economics - 1973, p. 330
- ^ The History of Television, 1880-1941, by Albert Abramson, 1987, p. 27