That depends upon what you consider color television. Peter Goldmark from CBS laboratories invented a system known as sequential
color television about 1951. (See "First Color Television Issue" of the IRE proceedings, January 1951). The problem was that
it utilized a rotating color wheel (read as: had moving parts) and was very cumbersome and not compatible with existing monochrome
(Black and White) receivers. (Peter also invented the 33 1/3 RPM phonograph record, he should have quit while he was ahead).
“General” Sarnoff over at RCA literally beat-up his engineers until they came up with a fully compatible all
electronic color system that actually worked, most of the time at least.(See second Color Television Issue of the IRE, March
1954 (give or take a few months, like this was a long time ago and I drink a lot :). It was and remains, an engineering, mathematical,
and technological marvel. Encoding "colors" on phase-modulated sub-carriers wow, who’d of thunk of that? Zenith Radio
Corporation et al. are given credit for contributions to the development of the tri-color Kinescope (Picture Tube) that made
all this possible.
In an era where everything is obsolete in 6 months, think about it, this system has served us to the present day, more
than 50 years. We'll get rid of it over-the-air at least, in March 2006 to go all digital. It will likely survive in some
form for several more years. Technically this system is known as RS-170A and interestingly is a standard that was never officially
accepted by the FCC.
Mark
mark.aceto@fcps.edu
The real inventor of the color television was Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, a Mexican national from Guadalajara Jalisco.
His project was rejected by the Mexican authorities and had to go to the United States.
Guillermo González Camarena (1917-1965), in 1934 he made his first TV when he was 17 years old, later he patented his color
TV in Mexico and the US. From there the invention went to different parts of the world.
He invented the first color TX and first TV XEG. He holds the design and pattent to color television systems from 1940,
1942, 1960 and 1962.
In August 31, 1946 he sent his first color transmition from his lab in the offices of The Mexican League of Radio Experiments
in Lucerna St. #1, in Mexico City. The video signal was transmited in 115 MHz. and the audio in a band of 40 meters.
RCA claims they did it in 1946 but Camarena's pattent has an earlier month. Also, there are previous attempts or designs
but none worked properly. Camarena's was the first succesful one, therefore, the first.
Lilia Milan
In 1940 at the age of 22, Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena obtained US Patent #2,296,022 for his Trichromatic system used for
color television transmissions.
OFF COURSE GUILLERMO GONZALEZ CAMARENA WAS THE PERSON WHO INVENTED THE COLOR TV WE ALL KNOW THAT, IT WAS IN 1940 WHEN HE
DID IT.
LUIZ
Brains are located in every part of the world poor, rich or even with a different way to achieve their goals, GUILLERMO
GONZALEZ CAMARENA, was the INVENTOR and came from Guadalajara, MX a city that im proud to know very well just for the beauty
of it you can get inspired too, a REAL MEXICAN as many others that are not on TV or NEWSPAPERS, real Modest Brains and they
are not mentioned like those of the big metropolis, But They Should Be...Even if it hurts them. Quien invento la television a colores? Los cerebros estan situados en cada parte del mundo pobre, de ricos con una diversa manera de alcanzar sus metas, GUILLERMO
GONZALEZ CAMARENA, fue el INVENTOR de Guadalajara, MX una ciudad de la cual estoy muy orgulloso
que su belleza inspiro a un MEXICANO VERDADERO como tantos otros no se mencionan en la en la TV
o los PERIODICOS, ni en las grandes metropolis, pues eso los lastima . En 1940 en la edad de 22, Guillermo Gonzalez
Camarena obtuvo la patente #2,296,022 de los E.E.U.U. para su sistema tricromatico usado para las transmisiones de la televisionn
de color.
