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 | | Meanwhile, in 1907, Boris Rosing, a Russian, proposed to use a cathode ray tube invented a decade before that by the German physicist Karl Braun and used in oscilloscopes. |
 | | On May 9, 1911, Rosing unveiled his invention to his fellow teachers at St. Petersburg Institute of Technology and, shortly after that, became a proud winner of the Gold Medal awarded him by the Russian Technological Society. |
 | | Stunned by the sight of Rosing’s laboratory, which was a maze of tangled wires, Zvorykin quickly embraced the idea of electronic television. |
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