Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr.
American television pioneer
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Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr.'s Degrees
- Bachelors Electrical Engineering Georgia Tech
- Masters Electrical Engineering Georgia Tech
- PhD Electrical Engineering Georgia Tech
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Toliver Goldsmith Jr. was an American television pioneer, the co-inventor of the cathode-ray tube amusement device, and a professor of physics at Furman University. Biography Goldsmith was born in Greenville, South Carolina, on January 9, 1910. His parents were Thomas and Charlotte Goldsmith, a real estate broker and concert pianist respectively. As a teenager, he built crystal radio sets, and continued his interest in engineering as a graduate of Furman University in Greenville. He received his B.S. at Furman University in Greenville in 1931, in physics, and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1936 building an oscilloscope for his doctoral research, under the supervision of Dr. Frederick Bidell. After graduating from Cornell, became director of research for DuMont Laboratories in New Jersey, and vice president; he chaired the Synchronization Panel of the National Television System Committee and also the Radio Manufacturers Association Committee on Cathode-Ray Tubes. He also became the chief engineer for the Dumont-affiliated television station WTTG in Washington, DC, now a Fox-owned station, is named for him, with his initials forming the basis of the callsign. In 1966 he left DuMont to become a professor of physics at Furman, and he retired to become an emeritus professor in 1975.
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