April 20, 1940: Electron Microscope Crosses the Atlantic; Zworykin Crosses the Delaware

1940: Vladimir Zworykin, better known as a co-inventor of television, demonstrates the first electron microscope in the United States. Once again, the Russian emigré improves but does not, strictly speaking, invent an important electronic apparatus. Zworykin came to the United States in 1919 and worked for Westinghouse for a decade. While there, he developed and [...]