Vladimir Zworykin — inv. (television) with roots in the Russian Empire
Vladimir Zworykin was a Russian-American inventor and engineer born in Murom (Russian Empire) who is credited as the father of electronic television. He invented the iconoscope (television camera tube) and the kinescope (picture tube) — the two fundamental components of electronic television — while working at RCA.
Tracing the roots — Murom
Born in Murom (Russian Empire) in 1888 and trained at the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology under Boris Rosing (who first demonstrated electronic television), Zworykin emigrated to the United States after the Revolution and built the technological foundation of television at RCA. Every television ever made owes something to his Murom-born, St. Petersburg-educated mind.
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Murom. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.