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Thomas Toliver Goldsmith, Jr. was an early
television pioneer, the inventor of the
first video game, and a professor of physics at
Furman University.
Biography
Goldsmith was born in
Greenville, South Carolina on January 10, 1910. He received his B.S. at Furman University in Greenville in 1931, in physics, and his Ph.D. from
Cornell University in 1936, under the supervision of Dr. Frederick Van Bide. After graduating from Cornell, he became director of research for
DuMont Laboratories, and (after 1953) vice president; he chaired the Synchronization Panel of
the
National Television System Committee and also the Radio Manufacturers Association Committee
on Cathode-Ray Tubes. television station
WTTG, formerly in the DuMont network, is named for his initials. In 1966 he left DuMont to become a professor of
physics at Furman, and he retired to become an emeritus professor in 1975. Entitled "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the patent described a game involving aiming missiles at a target, and was inspired by the
radar displays used in
World War II.
Awards and honors
Goldsmith is a
Life Fellow of the
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. In 1949, he won an
Institute of Radio Engineers Award "For his contributions in the development of cathode-ray instrumentation and in the field of television." In 1979, the Radio Club of America honored Goldsmith with the first Allan B. DuMont Citation for "important contributions in the field of electronics to the science of television". In 1999, Goldsmith won the first Dr. Charles Townes Individual Achievement Award as part of the Innovision Technology Awards competition honoring innovation in the upstate South Carolina area.
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