- Kenjiro Takayanagi
nihongo|Kenjiro Takayanagi|高柳 健次郎|"Takayanagi Kenjirō"|
January 20 1899 –July 23 1990 was aJapan ese pioneer in the development oftelevision . Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese television".Career
In 1925, Takayanagi began research on television after reading about the new technology in a French magazine. He developed a system similar to that of
John Logie Baird , using aNipkow disk to scan the subject and generate electrical signals. But unlike Baird, Takayanagi took the important step of using acathode ray tube to display the received signal, thereby developing the first "all-electronic" television set. OnDecember 25 ,1926 , Takayanagi successfully demonstrated his system at Hamamatsu Industrial High School, where he was teaching at the time (the school is now the Faculty of Engineering atShizuoka University ). The first picture he transmitted was of the Japanesekatakana character .)In subsequent years, Takayanagi continued to play a key role in the development of television at
NHK (the Japan Broadcasting Corporation) and then atJVC (Victor Company of Japan), where he eventually became vice president. He was also involved in the development of color television andvideo tape recorder s. [ [http://www.jvc.com/company/index.jsp?pageID=2 JVC America Consumer Site — History] ] [ [http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p19/column/index2.html Home VCR: International de facto standard made in Japan] ] He died ofpneumonia in 1990 at the age of 91. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE6D61231F936A15754C0A966958260 "Kenjiro Takayanagi, Electrical Engineer, 91"] , "New York Times," July 25, 1990.]Honors
Takayangi was awarded the
Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1989. [see above] ]References
External links
* [http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p05/ Kenjiro Takayanagi: The Father of Japanese Television] - A tribute to Kenjiro Takayanagi at the NHK website
Persondata
NAME=Takayanagi, Kenjiro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Takayanagi, Kenjirõ; 高柳, 健次郎 (Japanese); たかやなぎ, けんじろう (Hiragana)
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Television pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH=January 20 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH=Hamamatsu, Shizuoka ,Japan
DATE OF DEATH=September 7 1927
PLACE OF DEATH=Yokosuka, Kanagawa ,Japan
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
