Peter Carl Goldmark
Peter Carl Goldmark ( born December 2, 1906 in Budapest, † 7 December 1977 in Port Chester, New York) was a born in Hungary, American engineer, who demonstrated the first successful color television.
When Peter Carl Goldmark was 8 years old, his parents divorced. When his mother remarried, he moved with her to Vienna, where he earned his degree in 1926 and made his first experiences with TVs. He hoped to work later with John Logie Baird. After graduating, Peter Carl Goldmark moved to England to work for Pye Radio as a TV engineer. After working for two years as head of the Fernsehateilung he moved in 1933 to New York, where he worked as a consultant for numerous television and radio stations. In 1936 he accepted a position as senior engineer at Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). At Columbia Records, he worked on the LP. 1945-48 he developed the filler-free mass ( PVC and PV - acetate), by the noise of the plates was reduced and the speed was reduced from 78 to 33 ⅓ min -1. In 1948 he invented the long-playing record made of plastic which soon replaced the shellac records.
On him the first took place in 1940, attempts to apply color television go back. During a shifted his honeymoon with his second wife in Montreal in the spring of 1940 Peter Carl Goldmark attended a screening of the film Gone with the Wind in Technicolor. He was thrilled with the color images and easily fascinated by the idea of colored pictures on the televisions. After his return to the United States, he set out to create a prototype color television. The result, which he called " field sequential system " had its debut demonstration in New York on August 29, 1940. It projected color images of flowers, a red boat sails in the sunset, and a girl chasing a ball on December 2 1940 shone the system the first live color TV pictures on experimental channels of CBS. Images were filmed using a high-speed Dreifarbenrads and the display is facilitated by a similar device. Since the system was not adapted to work on the existing black and white television can, it was too impractical for communications commission for final approval. Thus, the pre- beating system he was at that time not used ( it was decided after a brief interlude of a non-backwards compatible system, 1953 on CBS and NBC for NTSC, which was named after the committee ) will indirectly today in a single-chip DLP projectors application ( sequential color reproduction using the color wheel ).
He also contributed to the development of photocopying, audio tapes, and VCR.
Private
In 1936 he married Muriel Gainsborough, but the marriage was short-lived and the couple divorced. The following year he became a U.S. citizen. On January 12, 1940, he married Charlotte Frances coach, they had four children, Frances Massey, Peter Carl Jr., Christopher and Andrew. The marriage ended in divorce in 1954. Goldmark later married his secretary Diane Davis, with whom he had two children, Jonathan and Susan.