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Often credited as the father of modern television, Russian engineer Vladimir Zworykin patented his "iconoscope," a primitive electronic television camera, while working for Westinghouse Electric in 1923, and a cathode-ray tube called the kinescope in 1929. In 1927, Philo T. Farnsworth became the first inventor to successfully demonstrate the transmission of television signals. Transferred by Westinghouse to RCA, which dragged Farnsworth into expensive lawsuits, Zworykin helped develop viable television in the 1930s, with technology that infringed upon Farnsworth patents.
