Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Profile: Boris Rosing

http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1813

Suggested by the Russian Olympic opening montage that claimed they invented television.

5 comments:

  1. Zworykin's invention proved to be better than Farnsworth's, so, yes, it were Russians who invented television.
    Rosing is not all that likely to be Jewish. There were plenty of Russified Germans and Dutchmen living in the Russian Empire.

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  2. Is Vladmir Zworkin Jewish?

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  3. Pretty sure Rosing was German.

    Zworykin was not Jewish.

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  4. The most significant Jewish pioneer was probably Isaac Shoenberg, another Russian, who invented the first high-definition (405 line) television system, used by the BBC in 1936.

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  5. I think David Sarnoff was a little more significant than Isaac Shoenberg....

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