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batten(1) (iou)



batten noun1. L15.
[Old French batant use as noun of pres. pple of batre: see BATTER verb1, -ANT1.]
A long narrow piece of squared timber. L15.
A strip of wood used for clamping the boards of a door etc. M17.
Nautical. A strip of wood or metal for securing tarpaulin over a hatchway or for preventing chafing of masts and spars. M18.
A strip of wood etc. carrying electric (or formerly gas) lamps. M19.

Zworykin, Vladimir (Kosma) (sh)




born July 30, 1889, Murom, Russia
died July 29, 1982, Princeton, N.J., U.S.

Russian-born U.S. electronic engineer and inventor.

He immigrated to the U.S. in 1919. While with Westinghouse Electric Corp. (1920-29), he filed patent applications for his inventions of the iconoscope (a TV transmission tube, 1923) and the kinescope (TV receiver, 1924), which formed the first all-electronic TV system. He patented a colour TV system in 1928. In 1929 he became director of electronic research at RCA. His electron image tube, sensitive to infrared light, was the basis for devices first used in World War II for seeing in the dark.