Hovannes Adamian

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Hovannes Adamian (5 February 1879, Baku - 12 September 1932, Leningrad) was an Armenian engineer and inventor of the Color TV.

Adamian studied at the universities of Zurich and Berlin. He designed the systems of black and white and color television. The first experimental color television was shown in London in 1928 based on Adamian's tricolor principle. [1].

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  1. ^ Adamian in Great Soviet Encyclopedia