He goes to the kitchen. "What are you doing?"
She says, "I'm trying to do this jigsaw puzzle."
"What's it supposed to be?" he asks.
She picks up the box. "A Rooster."
"Honey," he says. "Let's put the cornflakes back in the box....."
Sir Isaac ShoenbergDied 25 Jan 1963 at age 82 (born 1 Mar 1880).Russian-Born British electrical engineer and principal inventor of the first high-definition television system, as used by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for the world's first public high-definition telecast (from London, 1936). He had installed the first radio stations in Russia before moving to England in 1914. He was head of a research group for Electrical and Musical Industries (EMI) that developed (1931-35) an advanced kind of camera tube (the Emitron) and a relatively efficient hard-vacuum cathode-ray tube for the television receiver. Until 1964 the BBC used his technical standard proposal - 405 scanning lines and 25 pictures a second. He was director of EMI from 1955. His youngest son, David Shoenberg, became a noted physicist. |
