LabGuy's World: People who contributed to video recording history
This page contains articles about some of the many people who contributed to the art of recording television signals on magnetic tape. These articles are in NO PARTICULAR ORDER, so please take no offense if your favorite is not ranked as you feel is just. 
THE ORIGINAL AMPEX VTR DESIGN TEAM AND THE 1956 VR-1000 Mk-IV VTR
(CLICK AN ENGINEER OR THE VTR FOR MORE INFO)
Fred Pfost
Shelby Henderson
Ray Dolby
Alex Maxey
Charles Ginsburg
Charley Anderson
FRED PFOST (Video heads)SHELBY HENDERSON (precision machinist)RAY DOLBY (simplified FM system)ALEX MAXEY (developed earliest helical scan at Ampex)CHARLES GINSBURG (Team Leader / Ram Rod)CHARLEY ANDERSON (Developed the Key FM technology)
THE BIRTH OF VIDEO TAPE RECORDING
EVEN MORE PIONEERS OF MAGNETIC VIDEO RECORDING

LABGUY MEETS
CHARLEY ANDERSON
JULY 4, 2003

KURT MACHEIN
(First "portable" video tape recorder and slo-mo instant replay disc recorder)

CHESTER NEWELL
(Ultra-innovative tape handling mechanism for high speed longitudinal recorders)

JOSEPH ROIZEN
(Video industry consultant and my career inspiration)

DAVID SARNOFF
(Genius of the consumer electronics market!)

ALEXANDER M. PONIATOFF
(Founder of Ampex Corporation)

AKIO MORITA
(One of the founders of Sony Corporation)
  
JOHN LOGIE BAIRD
(First video disc recordings in 1929 to complement his mechanical TV system)

PHILO T. FARNSWORTH
(Gave us something to record! Invented the Image Dissector Tube.)

VLADIMER ZWORYKIN
(He also gave us stuff to record! Developed the Iconoscope tube)
DR. ALBERT ROSE
(Developed the orthicon & image orthicon tube at RCA)
EARL MASTERSON
(First US patent for helical scan recording, 1950)
AKIRA HIROTO
(Father of VHS? Built an operational 1/4 scale VR-1500 in 1970!)
    
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Last updated: February 26, 2005