Charles Ginsburg
Charles Paulson Ginsburg ( born July 27, 1920 in San Francisco, † April 9th, 1992 in Eugene, Oregon) was an American pioneer of magnetic tape recording technology.
He received his Bachelor in 1948 at the San Jose State University and then worked until 1951 in the San Francisco area radio station. After Alexander M. Poniatoff brought him to Ampex, where he led the research team that developed the first VCR. He realized the well-known since the 1930s idea of a rotating magnetic head ( cf. helical scanning ). He worked until his retirement in 1986 for Ampex, most recently as vice president of technology.
Ginsburg was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, which honored him in its obituary as the inventor and developer of the relevant video tape recording technology for instant playback since 1973.
In 1990 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame American, in 2000 in the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame. He held several U.S. patents.
Awards
- David Sarnoff Award from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE ) (1957 )
- Vladimir K. Zworykin Award from the Institute of Radio Engineers (1958 )
- Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences ( 1960),
- Howard N. Potts Medal of the Franklin Institute ( 1969),
- John Scott Price of the City of Philadelphia Board of Directors of Trusts, Video Achievement Award of the former International Tape / Disc Association (1975)
U.S. patents
- U.S. Patent 3,003,025
- U.S. Patent 2,968,692
- U.S. Patent 2,956,114
- U.S. Patent 2,921,990
- U.S. Patent 2,916,547
- U.S. Patent 2,916,546
- U.S. Patent 2,866,012