Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives (1882–1953) was a scientist and engineer who headed the development of facsimile and television systems at AT&T in the first half of the twentieth century. AT&T Inc. ...

Ives studied at the University of Pennsylvania and the Johns Hopkins University, where he graduated in 1908. He wrote a 1920 book on aerial photography, while an Army reserve officer, in the aviation section.^[1] The University of Pennsylvania (or Penn[3][4]) is a private, nonsectarian research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... The Georgian terrace of Royal Crescent (Bath, England) from a hot air balloon Dulles Airport in Reston, Virginia, from an airplane Intersection of E42 and E451 as seen from a Lufthansa Boeing 747 soon after takeoff from Frankfurt International Airport Moreton Island in Queensland, Australia Aerial photography is the taking...

Like his father Frederick Eugene Ives, Herbert was an expert on color photography. In 1924 he transmitted and reconstructed the first color facsimile, using color separations. In 1927 he demonstrated 185-line long-distance television, transmitting the image of Herbert Hoover from AT&T's experimental station 3XN in Whippany, New Jersey. Frederick Eugene Ives (1856 - 1937) was a U.S. inventor. ... AT&T Inc. ... Whippany is a town in Morris County, New Jersey. ...

In the 1940s, Ives became known for his vigorous scientific opposition to Einstein's theory of relativity.^[2][3][4] Einstein redirects here. ... Two-dimensional analogy of space-time distortion described in General Relativity. ...

U. S. President Harry Truman awarded Ives a "Medal for Merit" in 1948 for his war-time work on blackout lighting and optical communication systems.^[2] For the victim of Mt. ...

References

1. ^ Herbert E. Ives, Airplane Photography, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1920.
2. ^ ^a b Dean Turner and Richard Hazelett, eds., The Einstein Myth and the Ives Papers: A Counter-Revolution in Physics Pasadena: Hope Publishing, 1979 [1]
3. ^ Ives, H. E. & Stilwell, G. R. (1938): An experimental study of the rate of a moving clock. J. Opt. Soc. Am. 28, 215-226
4. ^ Ives, H. E. & Stilwell, G. R. (1941): An experimental study of the rate of a moving clock. II. J. Opt. Soc. Am. 31, 369-374

External links

• Biography and photo
• AT&T history with photos
• Herbert Ives and the Ether
• More television history and photos
• Even more television history
• Partial bibliography
• Quotes