Technology Innovators

Robert Adler on his management style as director of research at Zenith and becoming a vice president

Robert Adler on advice to aspiring television scientists and inventors

Carl Brainard on inventing a garage door opener

Carl Brainard on advice to aspiring visionaries and inventors

Garrett Brown on inventing the Steadicam and the Arm

Garrett Brown on the final form of the Steadicam

Garrett Brown on how the Steadicam works

Garrett Brown on teaching Steadicam workshops

Garrett Brown on what it takes to be a successful Steadicam operator

Garrett Brown on inventing the Skycam, often used for sports on television

Garrett Brown on his process of invention

Garrett Brown on advice for aspiring inventors

Sam Christaldi on the job of an engineer

Ray Dolby on his early contributions to the video tape recorder

Ray Dolby on creating a pulse FM system for modulating the signal going to video tape

Ray Dolby on his patents on the video tape recorder

Ray Dolby on the basics of his noise reduction system

Ray Dolby on the then-current (2007) state of sound on television

Ray Dolby on the then-future of sound on television

Elma Farnsworth on Philo's idea for electronic television

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo patenting television in 1927

Elma Farnsworth on the drawbacks to mechanical disc television and the obstacles Philo encountered when creating electronic television

Elma Farnsworth on the reaction of her and her husband, inventor Philo T. Farnsworth (and colleagues Cliff Gardner and Carl Christensen), on September 7, 1927 when he produced the first all-electronic TV picture (a simple straight line) with his Image Dissector tube

Elma Farnsworth on how her husband Philo T. Farnsworth used to solved problems while he slept

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's input on commercial broadcast standards for the United States

Elma Farnsworth on several of her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's inventions: baby incubator, electron microscope, and satellite technology; on Philo's camera tube being a part of the Apollo mission to the moon in 1969; on his work in fusion and hydroponics

Les Flory on the development of the television pick up tube in the 1930s

Les Flory on how much he was aware of the work of Philo T. Farnsworth, and differences between Farnsworth's system and RCA's

Les Flory on the differences between the early mechanical and electronic television systems

Les Flory on his involvement with the development of color television and the controversy over the CBS and RCA systems

Ray Forrest on the importance of television engineers in the early days of the industry

Barney McNulty on how he became involved with The Ed Wynn Show, where he first wrote out cue cards

Barney McNulty on the specifics of his cue card process and on his cue card company Ad-Libs

Barney McNulty on cue card professionals dealing with censorship

Barney McNulty on working with actors reading cue cards, including an initially reluctant Bette Davis

Heino Ripp on what a technical director does

John Silva on first learning about television and knowing he wanted to work in it

John Silva on his first job as a television station engineer

John Silva on becoming KTLA's director of engineering and research

John Silva on the main duties of a chief television engineer

John Silva on advice to aspiring television engineers

Tony Verna on the rise of DVR