Geer, Willard, 1902-
C. Willard Geer scrapbooks, 1944-1962.
Two scrapbooks of clippings, correspondence, original United States patents, briefs on hearings of patent interference suits, drawings of color television tubes, photographs of Geer and his model of the receiving tube, licensing agreement proposal on the sale of patent rights to the (Bob) Hope Enterprises, and biographical information.
Assistant professor of physics, University of Southern California, 1943-1968. In 1944, he was granted the basic patent in color television for his tri-color television device which enabled the practical production of color images by television receiving apparatus. He held fourteen additional patents on the television.
Geer, Willard, 1902-
Hope Enterprises, Inc.
Color television
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