Vladimir Zvorykin, the Russian born engineer, inventor, pioneer of television technology, and father of the cathode ray tube, was born on 30 July 1889.

He emigrated to the United States in 1919, where he found work at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. His invention called iconoscope, which considered to be the foundation for all electronic television camera, was filed as a patent in 1923.

Zvorykin presented a cathode ray tube called kinescope, that is, the television tube, the fundamental part of the completely electronic television set, at a meeting of radio engineers on 18 November 1929. In the same year he joined RCA, where he made improvements to the television tube. Zvorykin made efforts to perfect the invention actually created by the German Karl Ferdinand Braun.

He died on 29 July 1982, just one day before his 93th birthday.